Reading yet another newsletter predicting financial doom seems laughable here, while around the dustbowl malls of California they seem plausible.

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Another disaster might spell doom for the industry.

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Perhaps lessons have been learned, and the next time a president warns the American people that we have no choice but to invade another country or risk our doom, the press will do a better job of being skeptical, thoughtful and rigorous than it did 10 years ago.

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He can let them happen one after another, like little spring shoots of doom.

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Who, for example, would be crazy enough to launch yet another young men's magazine -- and further doom his chances by focusing on ideas instead of careers and entertainment and sex?

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Mike Huckabee is another natural, but while his rants against Wall Street might help him, his rants against greed doom him.

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