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...need to fall back and concentrate on your music.” This is a man who’s serious about his craft, and he’s determined to make you know it. In spite of a 12-to-14 producer-to-track ratio, the album maintains a style throughout that’s all Freeway’s own. The Roc-A-Fella rapper is not beholden to his collaborators, nor is “Free at Last” simply a vehicle for production-heavy hits. In fact, upon listening to the album in its entirety...
...activity has been increasingly fueled by debt. In 1983 household debt equaled 55% of income in the U.S.; now it's above 114% (and above 136% of after-tax disposable income). The middle class--households earning roughly between $20,000 and $100,000 annually--had a debt-to-income ratio of 141% in 2004, according to New York University (NYU) economist Edward Wolff. And he figures it's even higher today. In the third quarter of 2005, the national savings rate (personal income minus spending) went negative for the first time since the Great Depression, and it has bounced back...
...necessarily a bad thing to borrow money, and it's hard to say what the right debt ratio or savings rate might be. But Americans can't keep running up bigger and bigger debts forever. At some point we have to pay them back or default...
...notoriously pragmatic Iowans. By 55% to 33%, Iowans - who will take part in a Jan. 3 caucus that will be the first test for Democratic presidential candidates - said they favored "new direction and new ideas" over "strength and experience," a new Washington Post/ABC poll found. In July the ratio was 49% to 39%. After trailing Clinton in the state most of the year, Obama now leads by 4 points, and he has eliminated her advantage among women voters and older voters. He is also dead even with her when voters are asked whom they trust more to handle the economy...
...Harvard, by contrast, the ratio between introductory-level and upper-level students is roughly 2 to 1, Cortese said...