Overall, the group feels that AMD has at least closed the gap a bit on Intel's Core juggernaut with a much better FX offering this time around, but overall the desktop CPU landscape remains unchanged -- with Intel still firmly at the top of the heap.

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Yet Bernanke seems to possess some Keynesian baggage, using such nomenclature as "aggregate demand, " "core inflation, " "potential output" and "output gap, " as though the economy were made up of interchangeable parts.

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And ultimately you've hit upon the core of this plan that has been rolled out today, which is an attempt to bridge the gap between the two thirds of the Democrats who would like to cut off funding and the third who ran in the fall elections essentially against that stance, and the inability of the Democratic leadership to bridge that gap.

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