Read more panic stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15082/panic.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:03:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73929/buffett-financial-panic-is-behind-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWarren Buffett says the worst is over. "The financial panic is behind us," he declared at Columbia University. The Berkshire Hathaway chief acknowledged that the US economy "still is sputtering some," but he sounded a bullish note on investment opportunities around the globe. While he gave "high marks" to Ben...http://www.newser.com/story/73929/buffett-financial-panic-is-behind-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 21:14:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71794/fake-lottery-winner-causes-store-ruckus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Ohio woman may be charged with inciting panic after telling a store full of shoppers that she had won the lottery and was treating. Police had to show up at the Burlington Coat Factory to put down the ruckus when word got out, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The 45-year-old...http://www.newser.com/story/71794/fake-lottery-winner-causes-store-ruckus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57680/flu-carries-lessons-for-bioterror-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe H1N1 flu outbreak spotlights a public-health infrastructure ill suited to respond to a pandemic or its close cousin, a bioterror attack, D.A. Henderson writes for Newsweek . We must “sharpen our health-care response. Rapid diagnosis and response are critical,” he writes. The “interconnected world we live in” means a...http://www.newser.com/story/57680/flu-carries-lessons-for-bioterror-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Apr 2009 13:11:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57356/bloomberg-blasts-photo-op-flyover.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNew York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is livid over a Department of Defense photo op that sent two planes buzzing over lower Manhattan today, ABC News reports. Bloomberg called the flyover “ill-conceived” and expressed ire over the DoD's failure to notify him. "Poor judgment would be a nice way to...http://www.newser.com/story/57356/bloomberg-blasts-photo-op-flyover.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Apr 2009 17:14:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44695/media-frenzy-makes-recession-worse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s no doubt the economy is bad. The of flood sky-is-falling news stories make that abundantly clear. But the avalanche of bad news—delivered faster than ever before through myriad, ever-present media outlets—has fed upon itself, sinking all of us into a deeper state of collective panic than in...http://www.newser.com/story/44695/media-frenzy-makes-recession-worse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Dec 2008 12:37:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/27932/thousands-flee-after-new-quake-warning.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA new quake warning sent thousands of frightened Chinese running into the streets of Chengdu today, Reuters reports. With nerves still raw from last week's disaster, drivers jammed roads and people dragged their bedding into open spaces. A 5.0 aftershock in Pingwu County also sent buildings swaying in Chengdu,...http://www.newser.com/story/27932/thousands-flee-after-new-quake-warning.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 May 2008 20:39:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/9615/can-1987s-black-monday-happen-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwenty years ago, Black Monday—now, the credit crunch. Haven’t we learned a thing? Yes and no, says MSNBC: Today, "circuit breakers" make a 1987-style sell-off unlikely by cutting off trading at certain limits. And new, tighter mortgage standards will keep credit under control. But greed and fear will again...http://www.newser.com/story/9615/can-1987s-black-monday-happen-again.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Oct 2007 19:49:59 CDT