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Today: August 4, 2011 Would Cutting the Military Budget Threaten Our Security? It depends how we define our priorities. By Fred Kaplan READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Obama at 50: Older, Wiser ... Happier? How the study of happiness is changing our understanding of aging. By Libby Copeland READ FULL STORY | More Double X My PC Needs ESP Google's Instant Pages and the joys of a computer that can read your mind. By Farhad Manjoo READ FULL STORY | More Business and Tech You Know the Economy Is Bad When Shoppers Can No Longer Afford Dollar Stores How Jeff Bezos Has Made Amazon a Powerhouse at Everything Chinese People's Favorite Stereotypes About Chinese People The Government Is Closing the Most Beautiful Staircases in Washington Advertisement Briefing Can a heat wave make you insane? Somalia famine: When does large-scale hunger become a famine, and who decides? News & Politics Why can't we just vote on whether we pray to Jesus at legislative sessions? Nancy Pelosi on the nihilist GOP: Her plan to fight back against the Republicans. Arts Responding to William Pannapacker: Humanities grad students strike back. Celebrity Rehab 2011: I watch it. You should too. Life Sports ticket prices are collapsing. Is that good news for fans? Condolence notes and casseroles: How to help friends in mourning. Business & Tech Airbnb horror stories: The vacation rental site reveals the limits of trust online. S&P, Moody's, and Fitch: Why are they so hard to kill? Science Rise of the Planet of the Apes: a review of brain-boosting research. Endometriosis treatment: My medically induced menopause.

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Dear Prudence: Take My Wife, Please

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dear prudence Take My Wife, Please I convinced her to bed another man, and now I'm insanely jealous. By Emily Yoffe Posted Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, at 7:24 AM ET Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Got a burning question for Prudie? She'll be online at Washingtonpost.com to chat with readers each Monday at 1 p.m. Submit your questions and comments here before or during the live discussion. To continue reading, click here. Emily Yoffe is the author of What the Dog Did: Tales From a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. You can send your Dear Prudence questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Where the Romney Campaign's Mystery Money Is Coming From You Know the Economy Is Bad When Shoppers Can No Longer Afford To Go to Dollar Stores How Jeff Bezos Has Made Amazon a Powerhouse at Everything	Advertisement
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Moneybox: "They Used To Cane Each Other and Have Duels"

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politics "They Used To Cane Each Other and Have Duels" Nancy Pelosi riffs on the debt deal, the nihilist GOP, and the fights Congress used to have. By Annie Lowrey Posted Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, at 5:46 PM ET House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sways and chatters, as animated as the other congressional leaders are stolid. She waves her bangle-adorned hands. She grins whenever she pauses to take a breath. Every question gets a minutes-long, ranging disquisition. This morning, sitting in a cream suit in her airy cream office in the Capitol, Pelosi spoke with a group of reporters for more than an hour about the current crummy economic situation and crummier Congress. She smiled. But that hardly hid her voluble frustration. Her points were these: She is deeply dissatisfied with the debt deal and the deficit-reducing supercommittee it creates. She believes Republicans are essentially political nihilists, and she has plans to prevent them from winning again. And she is intensely focused on jobs and growth. To continue reading, click here. Annie Lowrey reports on economics and business for Slate. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for the Washington Independent and on the editorial staffs of Foreign Policy and The New Yorker. Her e-mail is annie.lowrey@slate.com. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Where the Romney Campaign's Mystery Money Is Coming From You Know the Economy Is Bad When Shoppers Can No Longer Afford To Go to Dollar Stores How Jeff Bezos Has Made Amazon a Powerhouse at Everything	Advertisement
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Sports Nut: Plenty of Good Seats Still Available

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sports nut Plenty of Good Seats Still Available The collapse of the sports ticket bubble. By Neil deMause Posted Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, at 10:06 AM ET A few months ago, it seemed like Major League Baseball was in the throes of a ticket apocalypse. Through the first two weeks of the season, six teams had set all-time single-game lows at their current homes. The surprising Cleveland Indians led the American League Central in the standings, but remained in the cellar at the turnstiles. The New York Yankees, whose ultrapricey new stadium has been beset by empty seats since it opened in 2009, hosted record-low crowds for four games in a row. It was as if fans, having quietly absorbed more than a decade of price hikes and the advent of $9 beers, had spontaneously decided to go on strike. Ticket sales have improved since--overall attendance is now roughly flat year over year. Even so, there's a good chance this will mark the fourth straight year that Major League Baseball has seen ticket sales slide after a record year in 2007. You can't blame it on steroids, either. NFL, NBA, and NHL attendance have likewise dipped over the last three years. To continue reading, click here. Neil deMause is co-author of the book Field of Schemes and runs the stadium-news site fieldofschemes.com. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Where the Romney Campaign's Mystery Money Is Coming From You Know the Economy Is Bad When Shoppers Can No Longer Afford To Go to Dollar Stores How Jeff Bezos Has Made Amazon a Powerhouse at Everything	Advertisement
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The Haunting TOPIX Chart We Can't Let Go Of

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		Tech Media Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Europe Video Latest Thursday, August 4, 2011 The Haunting TOPIX Chart We Can't Let Go Of Politicians like to compare America to Greece, but in reality the TOPIX, with its long, deflationary slog is our best historical analogy. A chart we've run before, but which seems particularly relevant, is the above chart from Morgan Stanley, which shows the TOPIX -- post bubble -- responding to various stimuli and counter-stimuli. The basic lesson: throughout the long bear market, stocks always popped after fiscal and monetary stimulus, and worsened when policy makers did the opposite. Given how this market has coincided with a move towards de-stimulus (the debt ceiling/fiscal consolidation deal) we can't help but think this is playing out again here. Read » Also On Money Game Today: Next Stop: S&P 1130? And Tomorrow Should Be Epic Too The Real Reason The Debt Ceiling Fight Was Horrible News For Markets Hedge Fund Billionaire Phil Falcone: Today's Crash Is Just A Knee-Jerk Reaction To Europe Advertisement CHART OF THE DAY: Here's The Broken Neck Bone That Everyone Is Talking About CHART OF THE DAY: The Market Does Something It Hasn't Done Since The Worst Of The Financial Crisis CHART OF THE DAY: The Export Economy Can't Save Us Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.wyldside@blogger.com Change Your Email Address | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to the Money Game RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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