One advertising campaign, dubbed "Recession 101, " has hit the nation's roadsides with an array of slogans aimed at getting people to think optimistically during the recession.

CNN: Ad campaign wants you to think positive during recession

In fact, there has since been a wide-array of other gold-type ETFs that have hit the market, like the iShares Gold Trust (NYSEArca: IAU) and the ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca: SGOL).

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The game had just fifteen or twenty dynamics in it how the mushrooms work, how the blocks react when you hit them yet they combined in such a way to produce a seemingly limitless array of experiences and moves, and to provide opportunities for an alternative, idiosyncratic style of play, which brings to mind nothing so much as chess.

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