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Although Egypt’s cabinet has been in power for more than two months now, they have been unable to solve Egypt’s unrelenting political tension, which has taken its toll on the economy. The ongoing trials and tribulations of the deposed president’s court case have also had a huge effect investor sentiment.

London - The growth in Africa's Facebook numbers show that it has touched a chord with users at a near mass level. Social media played a part in the Arab Spring and they've been arguing about what part ever since. Here at Balancing Act we decided to engage with social media about 12 months ago and this article looks at what we've discovered since then.

BANGKOK - World stocks fell Wednesday after a meeting of Europe's finance ministers failed to stem fears that the euro currency union is hurtling toward a breakup. Banking stocks slumped after some of the world's top financial institutions were slapped with a credit rating downgrade.

Like the little girl in the old jingle, when student loans are good they are very, very good, and when they are bad they are horrid. President Obama and his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are trying to do something about it.

It should be the most exciting tech company on the block. Instead, it remains a media wallflower. The notion that Linkedin is boring has become something of a media meme.

by Elizabeth Waibel
Nov. 29, 2011

The downtown branch of the TVA Employees Credit Union hardly seems like the staging ground for an insurrection. It's a spacious, quiet place in a building just down Wall Avenue from the concrete TVA towers. There's a Christmas window display for Mission of Hope full of teddy bears and Barbie dolls, and inside you can find cheerful tellers and a complimentary carafe of coffee on a table near the door.

The program is to be Nov. 30 in Frost Kalnow Room. Family members of all ages can stop by anytime between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., but they must register by Nov. 29.

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