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November 25, 2015

It Depends on What the Definition of “If” is: a Clintonesque Parsing of Hillary’s, “I am willing to break up the big banks, if they need to be broken up”

Dubious Campaign Promises — Exhibit A; How Many Loopholes Can YOU Spot? “If they’re too big to fail, make ’em smaller.” –George Shultz, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State (and a former Treasury Secretary). At least in some parts of the country, Hillary Clinton’s thread-the-needle comment about big banks last week would be met with a...
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Bumper Car Look-alikes 5 Stories Up

  Riding Mower + Hovercraft + Trowel = Riding Trowel (of course) Except for the part about ramming into each other, the three contraptions pictured above look — and move — a lot like bumper cars. In fact, the devices (called “ride-on power trowels”) can cost up to $40k apiece, and are used in commercial construction to...
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