Dear Readers, my hopes for a week of non-work have come a cropper from foreign readers who say that my obligation to them is not cancelled by America's celebration of what it formerly was. There is to be no holiday for me. Putin Is Destroying Russia Paul Craig Roberts Yulia Shapovalova, Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera, reports that Pusillinamous Putin's ever-widening war has, as I...
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Growing Up In America Series – Measuring Decline By Prices
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08/07/2009
In 1939, the year I was born, gasoline was ten cents per gallon. A new car cost $700. A new