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1:18 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Weekly Standard: Here Comes A Recovery — Maybe

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A deserted shop is seen on March 4, 2012 in Findlay, Ohio. A census report released in 2011 showed that 15.3 percent of Ohioans live in poverty, the highest rate in more than 30 years. Economic conditions are a major concern among voters in the state, and among Americans as a whole.

Originally published on Mon March 5, 2012 7:04 am

Irwin M. Stelzer is a writer for The Weekly Standard.

Don't feel embarrassed if you can't figure out where the American economy is headed. I don't. After all, Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke told the House Financial Services Committee last week that the economy is sending "somewhat different signals" about growth. The good news is that the signals seem to differ only in the speed and strength of the economic recovery that now seems to be underway.

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Krulwich Wonders...
1:17 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

Inside-Out Your Mind

Originally published on Mon March 5, 2012 7:47 am

Look what Kent Rogowski did. He took a bunch of stuffed animals, kids' playthings, unstitched them, removed their insides, and turned them inside out. This masked red thing, I presume, is an inside-out, hmmm, I dunno, rag doll?

This one, I'm guessing, was (no, "is") a monkey in reverse...

And because this one has a duckbill, I figure it's a duck, wearing a pink skirt, but the inside part of the skirt is now...outside.

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Opinion
1:17 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

New Republic: The One Percent Bounce Back

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A general view shows the "skim room," where mobsters would steal some of the cash in a casino's counting room, at The Mob Museum Feb. 13, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the the first year of the recovery, 93 percent of income gains went to the top one percent.

Originally published on Mon March 5, 2012 7:02 am

Timothy Noah is a writer for The New Republic.

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The Record
1:16 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

What 'Mastered For iTunes' Really Means

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 5:54 pm

You could say that the story of the recording industry over the last decade and a half — the era since the MP3 rattled its game plan — has been a struggle to find a balance between the consumer's demand for widespread access to music, the artist's desire for high-quality product and the industry's need for compensation.

Last month, Apple made a move that subtly shifts this balance when they began selling albums in a new section of the iTunes store called "Mastered for iTunes."

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Blog Of The Nation
1:16 pm
Mon March 5, 2012

March 5th: What's On Today's Show

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Teller, the quiet half of the Penn and Teller magician team, poses Friday, April 13, 2007, at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles.

Originally published on Mon March 5, 2012 11:01 am

Do You Really Want Consistent Politicians?

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