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Daily Archive for February 2nd, 2010

We’re Being Ripped Off!

Not really. A student of mine forwarded this Yahoo finance piece to me: Are you infuriated every time you open your cell phone bill? Livid when you buy a snack at the movies? These are some of the rawest deals around. … Movie Theater Popcorn — 900% Markup A medium bag of popcorn costs just […]

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Like Lambs to the Slaughter

When you run multi-trillion dollar budget deficits and wish to provide broadband, health care, education and everything else imaginable “free” to Americans, you have to pay for it somehow: The Wool Trust Fund, which started in 2000, provides tariff relief for domestic makers of wool clothing and fabric on the wool they import. According to […]

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