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Apr 16 2009 5:41pm EDT

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Harvard's "Summers swaps" were a great deal for banks handling the swap contracts.

What do China and Kellogg have in common? Using the recession to expand market share.
I don't know what it is you just did right there - but for a second that was like financial chicken soup for me. John Stewart talks with Elizabeth Warren

When did your county start losing jobs? Probably in November. Unless you're in Michigan, in which case the answer is "2006."

Could better passenger rail increase emissions by displacing freight rail? Sure, if you don't also make investments in freight a priority. The thing about folks making these arguments is that they tend not to do it in good faith; when they're done arguing against passenger rail they don't then go push for more money for freight, or, you know, a carbon price.

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