washingtonmonthly.com - 12/9/2008
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MONDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * A good day on Wall Street, with the Dow closing up nearly 300 points (3.46%). The other indexes did even better, with the S&P; closing up 3.84% and the Nasdaq up 4.1%....
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The Bush Legacy - It seems he was a great president because he didn't have any sex. (More here.) (And a whole bunch of news round-up links from Steve Benen.) I'm having trouble even processing this thing about how Sam Zell bought Tribune. It seems that every time I look up, rich creeps are finding nastier and nastier ways to enrich themselves at the expense of, well, everything and everyone. (My prescription is that Tribune be saved by simply giving whole ownership of the paper to Tribune employees while recognizing the debts as belonging to Zell.) ...
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