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30 October 2008-one day before Halloween

Found some interesting news for insights on the subprime led financial crisis led global recession gloom. Even oil price dip enough for cab companies to call off the 30 cents rip-off surcharge today…30 glorious cents!

1. “Gordon Brown today called on countries with large reserves (namely, China) to increase the funds available to the IMF to help nations struggling with the financial crisis” (namely, Europe)

read more here (more importantly, read the comments!)

2. “The ten people who have predicted the financial meltdown”

3. The 20 Golden Rules of Investment. Point number two is so simple yet so many of us fall prey to the fable of the luminous bull charging and charging up the cliff…

4. And from Bloomberg, Four Reasons to Enroll in Your M.B.A. Program Now  (the concept of secure lucrative bank sales jobs is in tatters) and this quirky title will get your attention This Hedge Fund Manager Tries to Short Himself. Ha!

5. After the evil ploy to taint milk powder, China is under the global scrutiny again with ‘China toxic egg scandal’!!! Very soon, ‘made in china’ will be equated with ‘made with poison’. More items here found tainted with melamine.

And just for fun, the controversy surrounding consuming milk.

When it rains, it pours.