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CORN $3.52 per bu., up from $1.81 in 2005. The increase is mostly due to the ethanol boom...
COPPER $3.67 per lb., up from $1.94 two years ago. It's so valuable that 16 states have passed or proposed laws aimed at curbing copper theft...
GOLD $782 per troy oz., up from $465 in 2005. Worries about inflation and the falling dollar have fueled its rise...
Walk into Steve & Barry's sprawling New York City store, and a perplexing sign greets you: DUE TO LIMITED SUPPLY AND TO BE FAIR TO ALL CUSTOMERS, STARBURY FOOTWEAR IS LIMITED TO TEN PAIRS PER PERSON, PER DAY. Yeah, right. Ten pairs of quality, star-endorsed basketball shoes? Don't you need a second mortgage for that...
...liked, but added more people to the Medicaid rolls, which he didn't. There were far too many requirements placed on insurance companies for Romney's tastes, and he used his line-item veto on the bill's stipulation that employers who don't cover their workers pay $295 per employee each year into a fund to subsidize coverage. The lawmakers easily overrode it, as Romney surely knew they would. "He was trying to protect his own political position for the future, as opposed to creating a substantive policy," DiMasi says, still irked by what he considers Romney's grandstand...