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14 Apr 2010 21:45

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U.S.: Hey, America, you got a tax cut last year. Thanks for noticing

  • 12% of all Americans
    think taxes went
    down last year
  • 2% of bizarro hippies
    think people’s taxes
    went down
  • 95% of workers had their taxes go down
    last year source
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13 Apr 2010 10:21

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U.S.: This year’s federal deficit could be less than expected

  • 8% decrease in the federal deficit
    so far this year source
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01 Apr 2010 23:05

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Biz: Toyota’s way of dealing with heavy recalls? Big incentives!

  • 24% increase in total U.S. auto sales in March, led by Toyota’s rebound
  • 41% increase in Toyota’s sales after two months of recall-hurt sales
  • 8% decrease in Chrysler’s dismal sales from a year earlier source
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23 Feb 2010 09:37

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Biz: Hey! Some minorly bad news. Home prices went down in December

  • 0.2% decrease in home prices in 20 metro areas source
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06 Feb 2010 10:27

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Biz: Goldman Sachs’ CEO tightens his belt, relatively speaking

  • $67
    million     amount Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein made in bonuses after a record 2007 for the company
  • $9
    million     amount the CEO made in bonuses after a record 2009; how thoughtful of him to cut back source
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28 Jan 2010 20:38

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Biz, Tech: Apple’s iPad overhype just hurt its stock price big time

  • 4.1% drop in stock price today; stupid tablet source
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26 Jan 2010 09:56

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U.S.: The ’10 federal deficit: Still huge, but at least it’s sloping downward

  • $1.4T the size of the deficit in 2009; that’s a record
  • $1.3T the estimated size of the deficit in 2010
  • $687B the size of the deficit by year 2020 source
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25 Jan 2010 21:05

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Politics: Twitter takes in, parses the reported Great Obama Budget Freeze

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04 Jan 2010 20:14

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World: France retreats from a hell of a lot of swine flu vaccine

  • 50 million piggies went back to the manufacturer source
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21 Dec 2009 12:57

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U.S.: Crime’s on the decline in 2009, according to the FBI

  • 4.4% drop in violent crime in 2009’s first half source
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