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...Current market price, due to increased demand from aid workers and journalists...
Finally, a lot of pros believe we're in the early stages of a long run of commodity inflation driven by demand for raw materials in China. The Commodities Research Bureau index has jumped 36% since 1999, prompting institutions to triple the money they have tied to commodities. Stocks or funds of raw-materials companies, including energy and gold mining, are one way to go. Or you could buy an Exchange Traded Fund that directly owns gold, such as iShares Comex Gold (launched last week) or StreetTracks Gold. Or you could try a fund that invests in a commodities index...
...this week sold its one billionth hamburger. Why, do you realize that if all the meat in those burgers were stacked up, it would stretch to here?" - and he raises his hand a foot from the desk top. (McDonald's threatened to sue, not realizing it was goofy to demand a retraction for a joke...
...hard-core fighters, although Iraq's interim intelligence chief says it is able to call on a wider pool of up to 200,000 Iraqis for active support. For Islamists such as Zarqawi, the campaign is a rejection of democracy per se, and a reiteration of his demand for clerical rule. But for the former Baathists, the strategic logic may be that keeping Sunnis out of the process would deny the new government legitimacy. Democracy in Iraq will strip the Sunni minority of its traditional elite status, and the insurgents may hope to further deepen their alienation from...
...Pell Grant program currently operates with a $4.3 billion deficit due to an increase in demand for the grants, and according to a White House fact sheet, “the current student loan programs do not make loans available to students in a cost-effective manner,” and benefits are often provided too much to those not attending school and not enough to those students enrolled...