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		<title>A Losing Year for Countrywide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another little tidbit buried in the business section of the New York Times (&#8220;A Losing Year for Countrywide, but not for Chief&#8220;, NYTimes 4/25/08 page: C3). It describes the compensation package for Angelo R. Mozilo, the CEO for Countrywide, during a year when Countrywide lost $704 million dollars and lost 79% of its share value. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More sleaze at the Department of the Interior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to decide which Federal agency is the most corrupt these days but Interior is certainly in the running for that prize.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (24 March 2007) has a front page article Ex-Interior Aide is Guilty of Lying in Lobbying Case. The second highest official in the Dept. of Interior, J. Steven Griles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA &#8211; another example of &#8220;soft corruption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how does the Food and Drug Administration decide what drugs or devices to approve for use by the public?
These decisions are made by FDA Advisory Committees made up of experts in the field.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (22 March, 2007) has an article F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisors Tied to Industry which says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Health Care Plan So Simple&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NY Times has an article (A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn&#8217;t Simplify It by Robert H. Frank an economics professor at Cornell &#8211; New York Times, February 15, 2007; page C3) which is worth reading.
In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed tax cuts to make health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a lasso round Big Pharma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a shambles (e.g. 44 million uninsured, the highest per-capita spending in the world but health statistics among the worst outside the Third World, etc.) but one of the bigger problems is the sky-rocketing costs of prescriptions drugs.
One of the current battles going on in the newly Democratic Congress is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicts of Interest&#8230; Another pain in the&#8230; Back.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another illuminating New York Times article (December 30, 2006) entitled The Spine as Profit Center.  The article raises questions about how many of the 500,000 spine operations performed each year actually benefit the patients, and whether the surgeons performing the procedures are influenced by financial conflicts of interest.
It turns out that not only are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sickly smell of soft corruption&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a brief article&#8230; buried in the back of today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal (Thursday, December 28, 2006) about our recently resigned Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton.
I am sure she&#8217;s done nothing illegal&#8230; After all she is a lawyer and a Washington political appointee&#8230; But reading the article did make me a bit queasy.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our options have changed, so please listen to the following message&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/general/our-options-have-changed-please-listen-to-the-following-message</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an apolitical public service announcement for everybody that is sick and tire of listening to these automated customer service phone systems (I suspect the irritation transcends all political, religious, ethnic, and racial bounderies!).
Most of us have been confronted by these automated phone systems asking us to press a particular number on the phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first &#8220;Anal Leakage&#8221; Award goes to Royal Philips Electronics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is the first award we are giving out, a little explanation about the Anal Leakage Award is in order.
This award has been created for technologies that are sufficiently frustrating, obnoxious, or evil that we would all really prefer that the inventors had &#8220;puckered up&#8221; and kept it to themselves. It is named in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google &#8211; Straws in the Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google still seems to be the darling of Wallstreet but I wonder&#8230;
If I was invested in Google stock my recent experiences with Google would be rather sobering.
Google Adwords
I have been having a lot of problems with Google Adwords. The basic idea is that you bid on a list of keyword phrases&#8230; If a Google end [...]]]></description>
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