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  Mortgage crisis and increased consumer spending

  by PrimateDave in

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  i just read this piece at financial armageddon: .

  more about that 'healthy' consumer spendingi've highlighted posts at the market ticker, business insider's the money game, and housingwire which have suggested that one reason why americans can afford to keep on spending in the face of 20 percent underemployment and stagnant incomes is because many of them have decided to stop paying the mortgage.. now, yves smith, publisher of another one of my daily must-read blogs, naked capitalism, and author of econned, a great new book on how we got into the mess we are in, is also weighing in on the subject.

  in the following excerpt from "strategic defaults increase consumer spending," yves reveals some of the eye-opening tidbits that others have passed along to her:.

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  Back at the meetings for the past couple of weeks...

  by PrimateDave in

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  well, i made my move from puerto rico and have been staying with jw family for a few weeks now.

  needless to say, they are as "into it" as ever before.

  they started pioneering the first of september.

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  Auschwitz survivor: "I can identify with Palestinian youth"

  by PrimateDave in

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  auschwitz survivor: "i can identify with palestinian youth".

  "hajo meyer, author of the book the end of judaism, was born in bielefeld, in germany, in 1924. in 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the netherlands to escape the nazi regime, and was unable to attend school.

  a year later, when the germans occupied the netherlands he lived in hiding with a poorly forged id.

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  Any Vegans on the Board?

  by PrimateDave in

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  my new year's resolution is to make the lifestyle change to the vegan-pure vegetarian diet: no animal derived foods.. it is a change i have considered before on different occasions.

  i didn't stick with the diet in the past due to lack of information, or perhaps the abundance of misinformation available on the optimum diet.

  i've never been grossly overweight, probably never over 170 lbs.

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  Sesame Street Censored

  by PrimateDave in

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  sesame street censored video.

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  dave.

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  Headline: "Iraq War Ends" - New York Times

  by PrimateDave in

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  the new york times saturday, july 4, 2009. .

  troops to return immediately.

  by jude shinbin.

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  Banks earmark Billions from Bailout for year end Bonuses

  by PrimateDave in

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  according to msn money:.

  $50 billion of bailout going to employee bonuses.

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  Wall Street bail out keeps oil prices high

  by PrimateDave in

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  i just read an interesting article.. .

  "if speculators were forced to liquidate their positions, oil would easily be $65 to $75 per barrel by the time the liquidation was complete," said michael masters, the founder of atlanta-based hedge fund masters capital management.

  tuesday, oil was trading at $108.74 in midday trading in new york.. .

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  Scientology Ads

  by PrimateDave in

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  so, has anyone else clicked the ads and watched the scientology videos?

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  dave

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  Ouija board on YouTube

  by PrimateDave in

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  since i never have used a ouija board, i thought it might be fun to check out videos made by people who have used them.

  warning to lurking witnesses: the devil will possess your computer if you watch someone playing with a ouija board on youtube!

  and everyone knows that the devil hides pornography on computers just waiting to be found by unsuspecting friends and relatives.

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