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Another piece of Debt & Credit, corporation style. By Calpinist from TMF and notes on the Doge vs Ford case around 1919. This was in replay to a piece on teaching proper "Credit Use" in the schools.
Interesting take off on that subject:
As follows
Social Clubs / The Land of Sisu
Subject:  Re: The Debt Burden  [...]

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Found today: US$ and trade problems, an article from TSC and Aaaron Pressman on the "Box" the FED finds itself in these days.
Enjoy
Kentm401 (aka Economics R Us)
Dollar Defies Greenspan FixBy Aaron PressmanSenior Market Columnist11/30/2004 6:58 AM EST
Snip:
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his fellow central bankers may bear some responsibility for the dollar’s decline [...]

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And so it goes. This piece on the "China Trade" and Wal-Mart, re-posted from TMF and originally found by Mish over there.
Enjoy
Kentm401
Politics & Current Events / Current Events
Subject:  "China Trade" & Wal-mart  Date:  11/30/04 11:23 AM  Author:  kentm401  Number:  98015 of 98024 
Interesting post & stats, nicked from mish……China trade estimated to show about [...]

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Netherlands Hospital Euthanizes Babies
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Raising the stakes in an excruciating ethical debate, a hospital in the Netherlands the first nation to permit euthanasia recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures in a handful [...]

Tags: Ethics, Government, International Politics

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Investment Analysis Clubs / Mishedlo Subject: A Closer Look at the GDP Date: 11/30/04 1:27 PM Author: RodgerRafter Number: 126313 of 126318
Today’s GDP revision showed that the economy grew a whole buch during July, August and September. Of course you should already know that, because according to the government you were responsible for almost [...]

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Sunday, February 22, 2004 Posted: 6:24 PM EST (2324 GMT)

Schwarzenegger: Let foreign-born seek White House
He says longtime citizens should get to run for president
Arnold Schwarzenegger, making his Sunday talk show debut as governor, said that he and other foreign-born citizens should be eligible to run for the White House and that President Bush can [...]

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The Kentucky Department of Commerce recently came out with these numbers for top manufracturing jobs:

Rank
Industry
2001
2002
Y2Y
2003
Y2Y
2004
Y2Y
Overall

1
Turbojet and Turboproller Parts
$   1,614
$   1,666
3%
$  1,622
-3%
$  1,545
-5%
-4%

2
Antisera and Other Blood Fractions
$        74
$      220
197%
$     354
61%
$     348
-2%
370%

3
Purebred Breeding Animal
  $ - 
  $ - 

$     164
100%
$     348
112%
100%

4
Parts [...]

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This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
During the 2004 [...]

Tags: 2004 Presidential Election, Opinions

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Jason Javitz of Political Vice Squad asks:
What is the very first thing the GOP-dominated Congress should do when it convenes next year?

I, like everyone else that keeps up with the process that rules our land, has an opinion of what it should be.  I personally would like for them to tackle something quick and easy [...]

Tags: 527's, Legislative Process, National Politics

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Nobel prize winning economist Gary Becker has teamed up with Richard Posner in what might historically be considered the first blog of Nobel quality.  Pretty heavy stuff.  I’ll have their link over there  —>

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