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Continue reading Black Coffee: More Proof That Taxes Grow Without Rain (and Sunlight)

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Presenting a Little Economic Food for Thought

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Why the Debt Really Doesn’t Matter Anymore

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Internet Dress Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: You Say Tomato, I Say Lycopersicon Esculentum

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Bigfoot Hunters, Gold Bugs and Other Cuckoos

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Valentine’s Day with Alice and the Queen of Hearts

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Deceitful Data, Dying Dollars and Dueling Doulas

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Happy Days Are Here Again

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Cheap Gas, $43 Hot Dogs & Hasty Hedge Fund Managers

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Apathy, Ignorance and the Dying World Monetary System

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Continue reading Black Coffee: No, You Can’t Have Fries With That

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Buckle Up, It’s Going to Get Bumpy in 2015

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Americans’ Stagnant (and Exploding) Wage Problems

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Da Plane! Da Plane! Welcome to Fantasy Island.

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Sixth Anniversary Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: A Reminder That In the Essence of Truth Lies Deceit

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Oil and Dr. Copper Reveal a World Economy in Distress

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Inflation, Deflation, and Taco Bell

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Workin’ for a Living Edition