Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Why a Strong Dollar Matters to You.
A statement we frequently hear from economic analysts is that America needs a “strong dollar.” And most of the time, the non-economically savvy segment of the population blankly nods in agreement. Lacking a deep understanding of why a strong dollar is beneficial (or even what a strong dollar means), most people nevertheless prefer a strong dollar to a weak one. However, the words “strong” and “weak” are the source of much confusion on this issue. In virtually every other area of life, strength is categorically, universally preferred to weakness...Link
It's in the Atlantic too.
Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. "Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific Ocean trash vortex.) "But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic." The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast. Although its east-west span is unknown, the patch covers a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia (see a U.S. map).Link
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Please...Beat Pelosi.
John Dennis sits in the back room of Perry's in Pacific Heights, reflecting aloud over a cup of tea on the personal liberties he believes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stripped from him. In blazer and jeans, with silver hair and pale blue eyes that match the color of his shirt, Dennis more closely resembles a relaxing yachtsman than a thrower of political brickbats. Don't be fooled. A self-declared "Tea Party" Republican, Dennis is mounting a challenge to Pelosi in the 2010 race for the Eighth Congressional District, representing most of San Francisco...Link
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