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Friday, August 1, 2008

by THE AMERICAN last modified Thursday, July 31, 2008

‘A record number of hotels are opening this year,’ The New York Times reports,‘and the timing could not be worse’. . . A coal shortage in China may trigger the country’s ‘worst spate of blackouts and brownouts in four years’. . . According to Arthur Brooks, ‘Virtually every group in the population is less angry in 2008 than in 1996’. . . The United Kingdom may be on the verge of a negative equity crisis. . . Is it true that gasoline prices ‘rise faster than they fall’?

‘A record number of hotels are opening this year,’ The New York Times reports,‘and the timing could not be worse’. . .

A coal shortage in China may trigger the country’s ‘worst spate of blackouts and brownouts in four years’. . .

According to Arthur Brooks, ‘Virtually every group in the population is less angry in 2008 than in 1996’. . .

The United Kingdom may be on the verge of a negative equity crisis. . .

Is it true that gasoline prices ‘rise faster than they fall’?

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