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$2.49 Gas? Yikes! (The Good Kind)

Gas for $2.49/gallon* in St. Louis Park (12/4/2014) Just in case the numbers in the photo (above) are too small to read:  the price of regular unleaded gas at Costco yesterday am was $2.49/gallon(!). In fact, if you paid with a Costco credit card as I did, after the 3% rebate on gas, that comes...
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America’s “Vuja De” Moment: The Case for an “Energy Freedom Tax”

$3 Gas (or Below) in the Twin Cities “The U.S. is funding both sides of the war on terrorism.” –Thomas Friedman, The NYT “Vuja de“:  the distinct sense that somehow, something that just happened has never happened before. –George Carlin I saw it first at the St. Louis Park Costco Monday afternoon when I filled...
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China’s Purchasing Power

“Chinese Company Said to Be Buyer of Hummer” –headline, The New York Times (6/2/09) The bad news is, China’s appetite for ever-more trillions of U.S. debt may be waning. The (mostly) good news? China’s appetite for U.S. assets may just be kicking off . .
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