JUNK FOOD COCAINE

THE WEEK (2010) 4/16/ 19

Junk food that is high in sugar and fat were given to an experimental group of rats. They became fat and addicted even electro shocks did not deter them from eating. They also refused to eat regular pellets of "rat food." They were addicted.

TIME (2010) 4/5/40-44

BILL POWELL

China is building and building new homes and cities. They have become ghost towns. Why? There are too many buildings and not enough buyers. Thus a bubble is forming with nearly a 1 million over load of

empty houses, hotels, and businesses.

NEWSWEEK(2010) 4/5/ 44-45

GROSS

Because of the crash due to leveraging and worthless credit, many folks as well as institutions are heading back to using cash.

THE ECONOMIST (2010) 4/3/ 65-66

E-PUBLISH OR PERISH

Publishing companies and distributors must get ready for pan-publishing. That means that you must be ready in short notice to have a book ready for the consumer in numerous forms. The hard bound, paperback, Kindle, or an oral tape/cd/DVD. Readers that have numerous

chapters that come from various places must look like it is in a form that is all in one. Each page and chapter all look the same.

Further, the book may also become an on-line book. Thus, a book may come out in many forms or a single form or later have 2 or 3 delivery systems. Life just got more complicated or more convenient or both.

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DEBT RATIOS

The formula that keeps emerging is annual debt to gross domestic

product is 60%. The highest and have a workable system is 120%. That means that when the system is operating fairly well for every dollar that is created through productivity, 60 cents is paid for debt. The second means that for every dollar earned, one dollar and twenty cents is spent on debt.

This conservative periodical likes tax cuts, but realizes that it can create a great of hardship for the masses. The tax that does the least harm is an across the board consumption tax like the VALUE ADDED TAX. Firstr,what does a NATIONAL SALES TAX mean? The tax must be national so as to not disrupt the market. Thus you pay one dollar for something and there is a ten cent additional national sales tax. It is visible.

The value added tax is different. At each level of completion of say a product, a tax is placed on the product. Let's say that it is 2 cents. There are 5 stages of production for this product so 5 times 2 is 10 cents. At the time you buy the product, it is one dollar and ten cents. If there is any local tax that is visible and it is attached to the product. So you have a one dollar and ten cent product with say a 3 cent sales tax.

The value added tax is hidden. It is also regressive, but it should cover everyone. Even those of means who may be able to buy wholesale do not completely avoid the tax.

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The economic crisis all around the world is going to change the textbooks.

Gone is the emphasis on Free Market, self correcting economics. It will still be taught, but in a different way.