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When searching for a partner, most people want someone with
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As Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." To me, this nicely sums up recent economic figures that suggest America has escaped the clutches of another great depression and is on the way to a sustained recovery. Government reports say that GDP rose at an annualized rate of 3.5% in the third quarter compared with the second. This was the first increase since the second quarter of 2008. However, as GDP grew consumers grew more skeptical as indicated by a fall in the consumer confidence index. A poll in The Economist found that 35% of respondents think the economy is getting worse; just 28% think it is getting better. Unemployment is still rising, and even a White House adviser, Christina Romer, predicts it will remain “severely elevated” throughout next year.
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I am an admirer of Elizabeth Edwards. I've had the honor of meeting her on several occasions and I have found her to be amazingly articulate, informed, compassionate, and kind. It was my not-so-secret hope that she would run for president back when she was campaigning for her husband.
She's been through a lot, this cancer survivor and wife of a man who was outed for a scandalous affair that put a very public fissure in the middle of what seemed to be an ideal marriage and partnership. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (69) | Blog
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First came Whitney Houston’s interview with Oprah, where amid details of spitting and hitting and love/addiction came this particularly devastating blow: Read More »
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Uh oh. Warren Buffett is not particularly pleased. With all the
cautiously positive economic news--because upbeat is too strong a
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There is still time for entrepreneurs and small businesses to get their share of the federal economic stimulus money. The government’s stimulus measures allow firms that incurred net operating losses in 2008 to carry them back five years instead of the standard two years. This allows businesses to apply those losses against taxes paid in the past and obtain refunds. Read More »
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