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...course, scary numbers can always be found. There are loads of good things that may fake out the pessimists: low interest rates, reasonable energy prices, world peace, free trade and fabulous technological progress for starters. So by no means should you read this and dump all your stocks, let alone start buying up signed photos of Sitting Bull...
...better to buy a fake but reusable Christmas tree? Or to buy a real, traditional tree and feel guilty about wasting a natural resource? For city dwellers without a yard, buying one with roots is out of the question. So what's left? Swedish megamerchant IKEA may have the answer. For the sixth year in a row, the home-furnishing chain is offering its Rent-a-Tree program to American customers. Conceived in Europe during the 1970s and introduced in the company's seven U.S. stores as they opened, it works like this: for $20 -- a $10 deposit...
...Publicly announce that Barbara's trademark pearls are fake...
...Anti-Fraud Association. Last June California officials uncovered the biggest single medical fraud to date, a $1 billion rip-off carried out by thieves operating clinics on wheels. Investigators say the clinics offered patients free tests and exams, then used their insurance information to generate a huge number of fake bills. In a similar scam in New York City, a doctor billed Medicaid for $50,000 worth of lab tests for a single patient...
Even after WLT is making big money, owner Ray Soderberg is worried about radio's insubstantiality, which seems to him "like running a hotel with no rooms, just a lobby." He broods about the false bonhomie of fathead announcers, the fake warmth of radio stars laying on the charm to sell you hair tonic. But the big money keeps getting bigger...