Now along comes a new barber who wants to enter the hair-cutting business, but every household already has at least one hair-cutting shack.

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When the economy is buoyed by too much borrowing, when those bills come due to every American household and to every American company that has been making a profit on irrational spending based on irrational lending, which, you know, which happen all over the place over the last several years, it's going to hurt people.

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The typical household has monthly expenditures for housing and cars even though it does not make new decisions about them every month.

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The referendum on the proposed constitution is set for October 15th and the Iraqi parliament has sent the document to be printed by the United Nations so that copies can be distributed to every household in Iraq.

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