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About a month ago I started reading a book by Kevin Phillips entitled Bad Money.  You can listen to an interesting prophetic NPR interview with Phillips 4/15/08
I am only about half through this dense book (a follow-up to his earlier provocative book American Theocracy), but this past couple of weeks the scenes portrayed in Kevin [...]

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Today the U.S. Senate passed the $700 billion financial bailout plan with some “sweetners” that make it probable that Congress will also approve the plan this Friday.
In the meantime, the DOW dropped 348 points today (the lowest closing level since June, 2005).
On a national level we are seeing dramatic and very turbulent changes taking place [...]

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