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The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don’t Need What About A Stimulus For Bloggers? End The China Bashing Government: The One Price That Is Still Rising Betting On Super Bowl Falls
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The Stimulus: A 40-year Wish List Preventable Job Cuts Geithner’s China Bashing Bodes Ill For Stocks The Minimum Wage And Busboys If Shakespeare Had Twittered Want One.
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Will The United States Break Apart?
So says Russian professor Igor Panarin: He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil...
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Divided Government Is Best For The Market How China Helps America’s Poor Al Qaeda’s Failed War On the US Economy McCain Pulls Ahead Of Obama On InTrade New Research On Retail Health Clinics Talking Trade With Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez (Video)
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The Sarah Surge In Black And White The End Of Facts What Was Feminism? Is Mexico The New China? Kansas Looks For 50 cent tobacco tax increase. (Another failure waiting to happen) Why Bling Is A Bad Investment Triumph The Insult Comic Dog At The RNC (Video)
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Is China Really An Economic Threat? The Vision Of The Left The Harvard Economy “A six-year-old article mistakenly seen by Bloomberg financial news users yesterday reported the bankruptcy of United Airlines and triggered a massive sell-off that nearly obliterated the company’s stock in a matter of minutes.” UK Hiring Mini-Snitches A Letter From Hank...
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Rise of the Machines
Much of today’s rhetoric regarding manufacturing is always directed at countries with low labor costs such as China and India. Yet it seems if anything, robots are the main reason for manufacturing’s decline, not low cost labor. We are becoming far more productive thanks to our future robotic overlords.
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Dalai Lama Considers Not Reincarnating
Seriously. Ruminate about that for a moment. How cool would it be to be able to control your ability to reincarnate yourself, on top of being able to reincarnate yourself in the first place?Of course, it’s all political. The (atheistic) Chinese government is the threat here: Tibetans fear China will control the search for...
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Globalism triumphs
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that wages in China and India (and other similar developing countries) are on the rise, and are higher than they’ve ever been. The cause? Globalism. As more and more factories and jobs have been outsourced, the demand for labor has become more than its supply, which has lead...
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