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Home prices – Last 100 years or so

A picture is worth a thousand words. This graph represents the reasons behind the mess we are in, in a very lucid manner.

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Thomas Friedman – Greening the economy

New York Times columnist and Hot, Flat and Crowded author Tom Friedman spoke at the CORE: club last Friday night on the energy crisis facing the United States, as well as some more post-election commentary.
Just before his first public appearance after the election, he was kind enough to make time for a conversation with Huffington [...]

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Fed is refusing to disclose recipients

Don’t the taxpayers have the right to know where their money is being spent? The Fed’s excuse ‘The information is too scary for the citizens’. What BS!

Apparently Bernanke, that wonderful bipartisan soul who is so competent and wonderful that everyone in the village thinks Obama should leave him in charge is refusing to identify who [...]

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ITunes now the larget music retailer in the US

Now this is huge. ITunes finally surpasses Walmart as the biggest music retailer in the United States. They have sold a whopping 4 billion songs since 2003. Though I am not a big fan of Apple’s business models where they very well could charge you even for calling out their name too loud and I [...]

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