This suggests the market place is coming to the conclusion that some type of agreement will be reached on the fiscal cliff matter before the end of the year.

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Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type: Twitter has the potential to match some of the money-gushing properties of the Internet's greatest money gusher, Google Inc.

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But their conclusion, that these problems can somehow be fixed by mandating a new type of document, is both shortsighted and misguided.

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