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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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Why Car Rentals Are Pricey
in Great Recession

Airfares, hotel rates fell, but rental rates have started back uphill

Jun 28, 09 1:40 PM CDT
UPDATED

Auto Sales
Take a Drubbing in December

Chrysler off 53%; GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda all down more than 30%

Jan 5, 09 1:28 PM CST

 Plunging Exports Roil Asia 

Declining global demand sends shock across the continent.

Dec 23, 08 9:12 AM CST

 Chrysler Idling US 
 Plants for 30 Days 

Supply to be slowed so it meets lowered demand, company says

Dec 17, 08 5:05 PM CST
OPINION

 End the 
 Recession: 
 Throw Us 
 All a Grand 

Banks just horde cash; citizens will spend it

Dec 10, 08 11:22 AM CST

 Honda Cuts F1 Racing Team 

Attempting to cut costs, Japan's No. 2 carmaker axes racing program

Dec 5, 08 11:32 AM CST

 Taliban Stockpiles
 Surplus Opium 

This year's crop was double global demand

Nov 28, 08 11:05 AM CST

Home Builders Want Federal Bailout, Too

But critics warn adding to housing supply will only make things worse

Nov 24, 08 12:37 PM CST
ANALYSIS

 As Food Prices Rise,
 Lobster Treads Water

In Maine at least, local economies dodge the perils of globalization

Aug 20, 08 12:43 PM CDT

 OPEC May Boost
 Oil Output to
 Ease Prices 

Cartel may meet early and backpedal on current policy

May 9, 08 7:39 PM CDT
UPDATED

Oil Hits $104; OPEC Won't Budge

Cartel president blames 'mismanagement' of US economy for rising prices

Mar 5, 08 3:57 PM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

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Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

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Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

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Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

6
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

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Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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