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Jan 06 2009 11:43pm EDT

Extra Credit, Tuesday Edition

How to tackle foreclosures and unemployment at the same time: Get some desperately-needed empirical data on loan mods.

Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs: Mathematicians have the top three best jobs. Economists are in 11th place, just ahead of philosophers.

Preach What You Plan To Practice: "You can get better results from using hypocrisy than any other technique."

Choice of audit firm: "Ernst and Young, KPMG and PWC all have a reasonable chance of failing as a result of auditing Madoff feeder funds."

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