An updated chart from my book on the American health economy reaches quite the opposite conclusion.

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Chart taken from the book Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve, by William A. Fleckenstein with Frederick Sheehan.

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These are noted on the chart below and all text book activities of a bullish run.

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Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the University of Michigan, points out in a new book that levels of communal violence vary widely among Indian states (see chart).

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, reckons e-books will represent about 6% of consumer book sales in North America by 2013, up from 1.5% last year (see chart).

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