Human beings will never lose their taste for the bizarre, gigantic and the insane, and those who can access that fascination will always reap the rewards.

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But Stein's book is fascinating (who knew there was an ostrich-feather bubble?) as well as prescient (over-reliance on credit, neglecting to diversify your assets, the belief that a commodity will never, ever lose value--sounds vaguely familiar).

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Companies lose time they will never recover.

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While this is certainly true, Congress will only lose a power that it has never shown the slightest courage to actually use.

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Though Moscow, because of its high cost of living, should contain a high concentration of people who will lose out, in fact the demonstrations never mustered more than a few hundred people.

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Well, your mobile wallet will replace the paper receipts with digital ones that you can archive and never lose, even if you lose your phone.

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In addition, Obama never hit the trail for Barrett, which Republicans surmised was because the president believes Barrett will lose.

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Steve Jobs would never have kept a product that continues to lose money because in the long run, other companies will overtake it with better products and it would just be a giant failed experiment.

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