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The boom/bust cycle

The Patchwork Nation team has been traveling around the country, looking at different types of communities and how they are coping with the economic crisis. This week, they were in Eagle, Colorado, an area that has seen high highs and low lows throughout history.

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The lion sleeps tonight

With the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, who will pick up for the Democrats where Kennedy left off in terms of the health care debate and other key economic issues? Conventional wisdom (and the stock market) finds that Kennedy’s absence from the Senate floor will be a blow to the health care debate, but this [...]

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