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The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

Housing Update

…the sales, and in the first four months of this year, 67 percent. Early statistics for the following weeks show the trend strengthening. Last week I asked who the potential…

More on Gagnon

…I got this from SIFMA: http://www.sifma.org/research/statistics.aspx It’s still true that the Fed may have to call more than $1,218,400 from the vasty deep to follow Gagnon’s instructions — there must…

…published June 2010. DolB: I am a liberal. A label that “progressive” is used in exchange with. I am not a radical, fascist, loony, left winged, socialist, commie. In fact,…

The Shrinking of Treehorn

…be any more visible.” Driving forces behind the downsizing: Commodity costs are way up. Egg prices rose 44.9% from April 2007 through April 2008, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics….