First, the continuation of low dividend and capital gains taxes that had investors flocking in the high-dividend paying stocks and hot technology stocks, as an alternative to near zero money market and CD rates.

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About 15 percent of the new cars sold in California by 2025 must run on electricity, hydrogen fuel or other alternative fuels that produce near zero or no emissions, according to new rules adopted unanimously by state regulators on Friday.

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Or as an alternative title, why you might want to be careful believing what Zero Hedge says about anything.

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Zero-rate policies encourage indiscriminate use of credit and distort the process by which alternative demands compete for funds.

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Energy, Enterprise and Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing said he would write to the UK Treasury to invite them to explain why assistance dogs' food did not have a zero rate of VAT, to ask the about a 5% rate as an alternative and to invite them to do so "as quickly as possible".

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