Individuals who remained in the market lost a lot beginning in 2008, recouped a large share of those losses up until last quarter, and then have given back quite a bit since August.

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If they were stimulating the macroeconomy (including running a large and sustained budget deficit), then incomes would rise, driving up tax revenues (which, ironically, would reduce the deficit).

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Home Automation president Jay McLellan described how his company was targeted by a holding company that had bought up dormant patents six months from expiration, then used them to sue large and small producers.

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Closer examination of the animals' anatomy revealed that the sea slugs had a large part of their penis coiled up in a spiral inside their bodies, which they would then use to replenish their missing part.

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So he picked up Kansas, Nebraska, Maine over the weekend, and then the primary state of Louisiana with a large African American vote.

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The college bubble is not as big now as the housing bubble was five years ago, but it is much like that one in featuring a large population of buyers who are goaded by federal subsidies and tax benefits into a borrowing binge and then wake up with a hangover.

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