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Housing prices, once on the rebound, are falling again. Inventories of unsold homes mean housing prices will remain weak for years.

http://bit.ly/munHH4



How Miserable? Index Says the Worst in 28 Years

Misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how far there is to go.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43441924



Corporations buying our lawmakers

Virginia lawmakers flying to France as part of lobbying push for uranium mining: Five legislators arrived in Paris on Wednesday to see a closed mine in Bessines, in western France. Nine others leave Tuesday on a five-day trip - expected to cost $10,000 a person - that includes about three free days in Paris.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/virginia-lawmakers-flying-to-france-as-part-of-lobbying-push-for-uranium-mining/2011/06/15/AG0BDxXH_print.html


From Information Clearing House



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