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If you are honestly against subsidized health care

If you are honestly against subsidized health care, I want to ask you that starting tomorrow, and for consistency sake, you stop using the list of products listed below. You see, this is not an all encompassing list, it’s just the beginning of the list of products that you should be worried about.
What’s the list? [...]

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Economic data supporting the need of health care reform

Just taking quick notes related to the health care debate. I find that most of the assumptions of those opposing health care reform are misinformed at best and disingenuous at worst. I am not talking about honest common folk who formed an opinion based on incorrect information, I am talking about those feeding the incorrect [...]

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Despite Risks, Workers Guzzle Company Stock – WSJ.com

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What can I say? Companies found the ultimate bag holder?
Next week I will write an article about when the Obama administration will finally stop talking down the economy. Hint, it won’t be before we all are crying uncle.
I think I understand the cunning ways of this administration. I may even think it is [...]

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On long term trends

From an historical perspective, the Dow could go down to around 3,600 and all would had happened is that the speculative bubble of ReagonomicsĀ  would have been completelly deflated.
Get a complete chart of the Dow, trace a line from the bottom in 1942 connecting with 1974 and you will see how in 1981 the prices [...]

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The kintiskton llc dispointment

You look at the spike on your traffic and you wonder which article was submitted to
Digg or
Reddit. After checking your blog log, you find out that the traffic to your articles is just normal. What a disappointment. And yet, you see these big spikes in traffic that have turned some seamingly normal people [...]

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Gold retesting 1,000 and then…

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Really exciting (yawn) move in gold. I mentioned
a couple of weeks ago that gold was breaking up and was going to re-test the previous high.
I just guess there are plenty of articles “explaining” why gold is going up. I have no patience or interest in reading them as the only reason gold [...]

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Gold Correction Seems Over

Gold correction seems to be over and the
spot price will be looking for a retest of 1,000 in the coming weeks.
As any other speculative asset we will have to see how it behaves at the previous high. Breaking above 1,000 will signal that higher prices are ahead. Failing to break above 1,000 will signal [...]

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Some Historical Perspective on the Current Recession

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Back in 2007, a simple device allowed me to pin-point the start of the current recession on the fourth quarter of 2007. Instead of relying on massaged data, I simply looked at what was the real situation of American corporations. For doing so, with the
Bureau of Economic Analysis data on
GDP using [...]

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And Now They Tell US

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Last year around this time I said:
You read it here first: The US economy has been in recession since the fourth quarter of 2007 and is now starting to get out (thanks to
the Fed’s “free money”). Says who? Just all the American corporations.
Today we received the timely confirmation by [...]

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Web 3.0 in the making

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Web 1.0 was all about proprietary content.
Web 2.0 is (or was) all about
crowdsourcing and collective content. Web 3.0 seems to be a
self referential parallel universe were everything is a meme of a meme.
A recent comment on
Reddit about an
ebay meme based on the
seven legged spider meme, gave place [...]

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