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MarketWatch First Take: H-P displays some signs of turnaround

Hewlett-Packard started to see growth in one of its key businesses — PCs — and an improvement in its cash position, with its top executives sounding a lot more optimistic than they have in the last year about the tech giant’s recuperation efforts. MarketWatch. com – Top Stories

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financial debt: The First 5, 000 many years

Debt: The First five, 000 Years Before there was money, there was debt Every economics book says the same thing: Money has been invented to replace onerous plus complicated barter systems—to reduce ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred associated with evidence to support it. right …

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Debt: The First 5,000 Years Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt   Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans …

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