The Stories

The reductions will affect about 8 percent of HP's nearly 350,000 employees.

"The president lost his courage, and the country lost its gold-plated triple-A credit rating for the first time."

"When you have a debt at 102 percent, I’m not going to come to you and ask you to raise your taxes."

"They should deliberately force some places that don’t want immigrants to take them, because that’s the only solution for these big, hollowed-out cities..."

"I don't think you do that just for the money. There had to be something else. Beating the system? An element of compulsion?"

• Nasdaq Stock Market CEO: "Clearly we had mistakes within the Facebook listing"

• SEC chairman: "There are issues"

• Stock falls more than 18%

• Facebook: no comment

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"...if they have to cut it there’s going to be negative consequences."

Only a quarter of Americans think the "economy is headed in the right direction."

"Banks don’t add much to the neighborhood."

"This is not an attack on free enterprise."

Ten percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopath" -- except that they aren't.

"could lead to a severe recession in the euro area...with spillovers in the rest of the world"

"You heard the President of the United States say this weekend that Germany has got to continue to bail these guys out. Would you do it?!"

"A place where you can put your money where your heart is.”

"I think they have been overdoing the austerity."

“You need a lobbyist to get a meeting.”

"Countries need to adopt growth measures alongside relentless budget cutbacks..."