Society & Economics
Sweeping US legislation in the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank met the eurozone's first bailout, a jobless global recovery, the decennial census, Shanghai's record Expo, and Twitter's rise.
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FCC Adopts the 2010 Open Internet Order
On December 21, 2010, the US Federal Communications Commission adopted the Open Internet Order, i...
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pr...
Twitter and Social Media Growth in 2010
Throughout 2010, Twitter emerged from a tech-insider platform into a mass-media phenomenon, trans...
Global Unemployment and Economic Recovery of 2010
Throughout 2010, the world economy continued its uneven recovery from the 2008–2009 global financ...
Bitcoin Pizza Day: The First Commercial Bitcoin Transaction
On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas — the first documen...
Flash Crash
The Dow Jones plummeted nearly 1,000 points in 36 minutes on May 6, briefly erasing $1 trillion i...
European Sovereign Debt Crisis and the First Greek Bailout
During 2010 the eurozone entered the acute phase of a sovereign debt crisis that would test the f...
Shanghai Expo 2010
Shanghai Expo 2010 (officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China) was the World's Fair held in Shanghai, C...
2010 United States Census
Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates a decennial enumeration of the population ...
Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act or ...