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...much of the Federal Reserve Beige Book can be, there's something calming about its comprehensiveness, a sense of solidarity in misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over the next year. Flip through this report, despair, then go watch a Pixar flick...
...Fed's Bleak December Report...
...banks and insurance companies drops below a rate of $100 billion a month and begins to slow to much more modest levels as the number of firms that need big bailouts decreases, it means that the period of huge catastrophes has ended and that normal credit availability from the Fed has returned as the major method for feeding the credit markets...
...weighed how to incorporate lessons from the latest food-safety scandals. China has endured a series of such scandals in recent years, and often the country's youngest citizens have been the victims. Five years ago, 13 babies died of malnourishment in coastal Fujian province after they were fed formula that contained little or no nutritional value. Last year at least six infants died and some 300,000 were sickened after consuming milk made from powder contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics. Melamine added to a diluted or inferior milk can make its protein content appear artificially...
...captain Sarah Vaillancourt combined for a pretty goal just over a minute after Overguard was sent to the box.McDonald held the puck at the left circle of the Big Red zone, passed it back to Vaillancourt, and then charged the net. Completing the give-and-go, Vaillancourt fed a slick pass down low and McDonald slammed her second goal of the season past Cornell goalie Amanda Mazzotta, the team’s second-string netminder.The goal catalyzed the Crimson offense, and Harvard controlled the tempo of the game from that point on.“We always get so energetic...