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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

JPMorgan Chase reported $3.6 billion profits for the third quarter. This is one of those folkloric “good economic news” stories! [New York Times]
Now that Obama (& Olympia Snowe!) have defeated Chuck Grassley, Baucus, etc., he must now combat Big Health Insurance Lobby. [Washington Post]
There’s a second gold rush, except it’s a rare minerals rush, happening right now in California’s Mojave Desert. Go west, young man. [Los Angeles Times]
Hillary Clinton yelled at America and Russia for running around like this is still the Cold War. It’s not, apparently, was her point. [CNN]
Exciting job opening! Lots of potential for growth: Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida has quit and taken a job at Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.
McChrystal is worried that all corruption in Afghanistan might basically cancel out the work that new troops could (will) be doing over there. [AP]

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Pretty solid sounding suspicions of fraud arose after officials discovered that 23,900 out of 23,900 ballots from a certain area were all cast for incumbent president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. [New York Times]
There is no one left to serve on America’s juries, as the only people who can afford gas and cars are the finance executives awaiting trial. [New York Times]
Back to school shopping is still at relatively low levels. This already has people who work in stores and people who buy things from stores worried about holiday spending. [Wall Street Journal]
The Taliban is destroying Afghanistan’s Western-built infrastructure in exciting new ways and more successfully than ever. [Washington Post]
Big jump for car sales in August, mostly because of government incentive programs that allow people to afford cars. Good economic news! or… bad news for people called to jury duty? [Reuters]