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  • Interest rates have risen nearly a dozen times in almost an equal number of months.

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  • An election year, with both parties digging deeper into their opposing positions, is tailor-made for more of the grand-standing that almost shut down the federal government and nearly triggered a federal default in 2011.

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  • Almost everybody admitted that the deal was not nearly as ambitious as they would have liked.

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  • So why import almost a million people a year legally, plus nearly the same illegally?

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