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Optimistic Unemployment and Housing Market Forecasts Looking Silly
Source: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/

Economics may be the "dismal science" but economists as a group sure seem to be an optimistic lot. Yes, there are a handful of "doomers" like Nouriel Roubini but most economists did not see the recession coming until it was already 10 months old.

Ries' Pieces: What is driving the iPhone hype?
Source: ries.typepad.com

The hype and intense media, consumer and Wall Street excitement comes from the impression that the iPhone will become another iPod (it even has a similar name.) And that Jobs will do in phones (a market 4 times the size of music players) what he did in music.

Coming Home From Iraq and a Few Questions From a Friend

As I sit here listening to the local classic rock station skimming the news, Led Zeppelin playing Stairway to Heaven, the kids in the other room watching Scooby Doo, I think to myself how happy I am to be home.

Pundits long on rhetoric, short on the facts
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Don't read this column yet. First, I want you to do something. Google ''Chris Matthews + Kevin James.'' This will bring up video of the latter, a conservative L.A. radio pundit, being questioned by the former last week on MSNBC's Hardball. You must see this video.

Harkin: 'Maybe Limbaugh was high on drugs again.'
Source: Think Progress

Today on the Senate floor, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) condemned Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comment, saying that the radio host makes these "provocative things to make more money."

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