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Today We'll Get A Good Sign About Whether The Economy Really Recovered
The first week of the month is always great, because it's data week. Yesterday we got a bunch of manufacturing data.Today we get car sales.Here's a preview, from Calculated Risk: "Light vehicle sales...
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Gas Prices Are Not Following Their Normal Summer Pattern Of Being Expensive
Summer vacation isn't what it used to be.A recent research note from Deutsche Bank's Carl Riccadonna points out that gas prices are not following their normal seasonal behavior. Usually, prices...
View ArticlePassengers Got Trapped On An NYC Subway After Smoke Filled The Train [Photos]
Dozens of New York City subway riders were trapped on a 7 train Monday night as smoke filled the cars, NBC New York reports.The subway conductor reportedly heard a "pop" right before the train went...
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Why Driving To Work Is Terrible For You (Unless It's A Really Short Drive)
Sitting in traffic isn't just frustrating, it's fattening.To get an idea as to why, let's review the research:• A 2012 University of Washington, St. Louis, study found that people with long commutes...
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FASTEST PACE OF AUTO SALES SINCE FEBRUARY 2007 (F, GM, TM)
May was a huge month for auto sales.According to AutoData, the pace of sales jumped to an annualized rate of 16.8 million units, the fastest since February 2007.This smoked analysts' expectations for a...
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Mathematician Explains How To Figure Out What Time To Get To The Airport...
What's the best time to get to the airport? It depends on how much you hate waiting around an airport, and how willing you are to risk missing your flight. However, if you've never missed a flight,...
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A Chinese Airline Might Start Letting Flyers Bid On Seat Upgrades
It's time to bid goodbye to discomfort while flying.Chinese airline Cathay Pacific is considering starting an online auction program where customers could place bids to upgrade their seats, according...
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Mary Barra Apologizes For GM's 'Pattern Of Irresponsibility and Neglect'
GM CEO Mary Barra was apologetic in a telecast about the findings of the Valukas report — the company's internal report on why it took 11 years for the company to recall cars with faulty ignition...
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30 Photos That Will Make You Grateful For Your Commute
The average American spends 38 hours a year stuck in traffic. It gets worse in the world's megacities: Commuters in Mexico City, Moscow, and Beijing can get stuck in traffic for hours at time. Natural...
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The Solar-Powered Airplane That Can Fly Forever Makes Its First Flight
With a wingspan longer than Boeing's 747 jumbo jet, the Solar Impulse 2 took off from its home base in Switzerland on its maiden flight this week. First unveiled to the public in April, the...
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Here's Why Chrysler's Sales Boom May Not Last
Chrysler Fiat announced this week that its U.S. auto sales in May jumped 17% over the same time last year, beating industry projections by 3%. In fact, with more than 849,000 cars sold so far this...
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GM Announces Four More Recalls
General Motors' miserable year continues as the automaker has announced four new recalls affecting 90,000 vehicles.This puts the total number of vehicles recalled in 2014 at about 14 million.Yesterday,...
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Chevrolet Reveals Its Most Powerful Corvette Yet — Here's How It Compares To...
Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche — be warned. With 650 horsepower, Chevrolet is coming after you with its most powerful Corvette ever, the Z06. The Z06's 650 ponies will come courtesy of company's...
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The Truck Driver Who Allegedly Caused The Accident Leaving Tracy Morgan...
ABC's Josh Margolin and Ben Candea are reporting the truck driver who allegedly caused the accident that left comedian Tracy Morgan critically injured and which killed one of his writers early Saturday...
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Why Japanese Luxury Carmakers Miss The Mark With European Buyers
A month before launching Lexus in America in 1989, Toyota considered running a television advertisement showing German aristocrats at a wild party in a hilltop castle. The voice-over intoned that the...
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Disgruntled São Paulo Subway Workers Refuse To Stop The Strike Causing Chaos...
A court on Sunday ordered SãoPaulo subway workers to pay a daily fine if they continue a strike threatening to disrupt the World Cup's opening game in Brazil's biggest city.Disgruntled subway workers...
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There's A 140-Minute Taxi Line At A São Paulo Airport After Subway Workers...
Some foreign journalists and fans arriving in São Paulo on Monday for the World Cup are being greeted by a travel nightmare.Amid a strike by metro workers that's wreaking havoc on the city's...
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Man Badly Injured After Out-Of-Control Elevator Surges 30 Floors In 15 Seconds
A man in Chile is seriously injured after he entered an elevator that then ascended more than 30 floors in 15 seconds before slamming into the roof of an apartment building.José Vergara Acevedo, 31,...
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An Engineer Turned A Boeing Airplane Into A Really Cool Home
A retired airplane is going to cost a lot more money than a trailer and have fewer amenities, but it's still possible to make the space surprisingly livable.Bruce Campbell, a former electrical...
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Truck Driver Charged Over Tracy Morgan Crash As Comedian Heals Slowly
Prosecutors say the driver who allegedly hit a bus carrying comedian Tracy Morgan and six others hadn't slept in more than 24 hours, the Associated Press reports.The driver, 35-year-old Kevin Roper,...
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