by Chip Krakoff on September 18, 2010 The New York Times reported yesterday that one in seven Americans now lives in poverty. There are a lot of “statistics” floating around out there that I have some trouble believing. Can it really be true that one in four American women are victims of...
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09-20-2010
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I send you Outside the Box each week not to make you comfortable but to make you think. Usually it is on some financial topic, but life is more than investments. Economics is not an isolated discipline (more like an art form I think) so we have to have a real understanding of the world around us. This...
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Filed under: George Friedman, Energy, Oil, Stratfor, Government, Al Qaeda, Coal, Third World, Peter Huber, Green, Carbon, Torture, US Intelligence