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...Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat?if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
RICHARD BERNSTEIN: Whoever is President, they'll end up raising taxes because the deficit is a problem. That may be a bigger issue than the Fed chairman...
GALLAGHER: The transition process will be turbulent. Feldstein had a whole different approach to deflation risk. He thought there should have been a much more aggressive fiscal approach, which would have had the Fed chairman aggressively endorsing tax cuts. He's also a big advocate of Social Security reform...
TIME: Does choosing the next Fed chief shape up as the biggest decision the next President will make for investors...
TIME: We'll get to that. First, a word on the Fed chief, Alan Greenspan, whose term expires under our next President...