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In India, high demand for wives sends young women into marriages far from home
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Calif. Inmates ‘Prepared to Starve Themselves’ to Protest Indefinite Isolation
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Question: Why do CEOs make so much money? The answer must be supply and demand, but I would like to hear a good analysis of the cost benefit. I do realize too however: Would…
Question: It seems to me like the Fed and the Treasury are trying very hard to keep asset prices high. The Fed has vastly increased the money supply, partly by lowering interest rates to zero, and partially through quantitative easing.
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