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Pro-democracy rallies, expanding farther across Hong Kong in the early hours of China’s National Day holiday, threaten to escalate beyond the aims of some organizers and raise the chance of confrontation.
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Amazon appears to be close to settling a nearly two-month dispute with Disney, during which the e-commerce giant stopped offering Disney DVDs for preorder, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,

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The escalation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests raises tail risks such as a possible liquidity shock, and even poses a threat to China’s one-party government itself, writes Craig Stephen.
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The dollar on Wednesday hit a new high six-year high against the yen, breaching 110 for the first time since August 2008.

Matt seems to have forgotten to take his meds, as his newest post is one of the silliest I’ve ever read.  Here’s an example:

War On Poverty Backtrack
You’ll recall Grandpa Sumner’s initial argument for why transfers don’t net reduce poverty went like this:

1. Since the War On Poverty started, poverty hasn’t fallen at all. I know this because aint that what them dat gum progressive bloggers say?

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While Greek government yields (and political leaders) proclaim the troubled peripheral European nation is ‘recovering’, the risk of major political upheaval in Greece has not gone away ahead of next year’s presidential vote next year. As Reuters notes, under growing pressure from anti-bailout leftists, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras desperately needs a new narrative to get the backing of lawmakers and rally Greeks fed up with four years of austerity.

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