Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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  • As a nation, we face a distinct choice. We can perpetuate too big to fail, with its inequities and dangers, or we 
    can end it. Eliminating TBTF won’t be easy, but the vitality 
    of our capitalist system and the long-term prosperity it 
    produces hang in the balance.

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  • U.S. negotiators are heading into a second day of what have been dubbed “serious and substantial” talks with North Korean officials. Yet amid all the discussion of how the U.S. will attempt to work with Kim Jong Un, there has been little (open) speculation as to whether Dear Leader Junior might crank up production of $100 and $50 bills. No, not North Korean 100- or 50-won banknotes, worth about as much as old tissues. I’m talking about fake greenbacks — or as the U.S. Secret Service has dubbed them, “superdollars.”

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