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Save Money By Roasting Your Own Coffee Beans In A Popcorn Popper: DIY Coffee Roasting Tutorial

July 8th, 2011

Coffee prices have risen an astounding 90% in the last year and coffee roasters and shops (everyone from Folgers to Starbucks) are passing along the higher prices to customers. On top of that, virtually all coffee available for purchase in the grocery store is past the peak of freshness (7-14 days from roasting).

Roasting your own coffee is a great alternative to paying too much for stale coffee. It is easy, can be done with a minimal investment ($0-$30), and costs half (or even less) of what buying roasted gourmet specialty coffee does. It is also a fascinating and enjoyable hobby that can broaden one’s horizons and palette. Ultimately, home roasting is the most economical way to drink the freshest, most flavor rich coffee. T

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IMF’s toughest challenges yet await Lagarde

July 7th, 2011

Christine Lagarde’s determination as a negotiator and experience working on the eurozone debt crisis are likely to ensure she settles smoothly into leadership of the International Monetary Fund, as the global lender faces some of the toughest economic challenges in its history.

Her charisma and the expertise in international relations which she built up as France’s finance minister will carry weight with governments around the world as she replaces the disgraced fellow Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned abruptly on May 18 after being arrested in New York in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel worker.

Supporters say Lagarde, the first woman to head the IMF, will have the political muscle to press indebted eurozone states into delivering on promised budget reforms.

Yet her lack of the highbrow academic credentials as an economist that Strauss-Kahn brought to the fund, and the likelihood that she will continue the same conservative policies which have so far failed to resolve the eurozone’s crisis, are a concern to some.

She has a reputation for sealing deals under pressure — during talks among the G20 nations in February she brought China into a compromise deal on ways to measure economic imbalances. Read more…

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Carson Block: Red-flag raises

July 7th, 2011

CARSON BLOCK isn’t the obvious candidate to show up John Paulson, a hedge-fund star who oversees $37 billion in assets. Mr Block is 35 years old. His previous business ventures include a Shanghai storage company called Love Box Self Storage. He co-authored a book called “Doing Business in China for Dummies”. Muddy Waters Research, his latest firm, has been around for only 12 months.

Most people on Wall Street hadn’t heard of him until last month, when he released a report accusing Sino-Forest, a Chinese forest-plantation operator listed in Canada, of overstating its timber holdings. Spooked investors sold the stock, which plunged by 78% in a matter of days, dealing Mr Paulson, Sino-Forest’s largest shareholder, around $110m in net losses after he dumped all his shares.

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Moving Companies In Georgia – Easy Two Measures To Pack And Move

July 6th, 2011

Have you ever considered services of movers and enterprise to move your household issues like furniture, domestic appliances, and other issues properly to the brand new location you chose to move or youre transferred to. This is a aggravating and boring sort of an physical exercise; nobody in the globe is going to like this although they may well be pleased about becoming relocated to brand new and fresh location. Hiring Georgia movers is a great approach to make relocating easy. Following are the two easy basic steps that you will find interesting as you have to relocate or merely move from 1 place to another.

1. To find the very best in the enterprise, just type in movers on the world wide web and you shall find 1 near you.

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