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Rapid growth and higher costs have led Vanguard to slip in customer service in recent years. WSJ looks at customer complaints about Vanguard service. Vanguard offers low cost index funds and is the largest company in this business. A new CEO is expected to tackle this issue.

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Peop Guardiola has never lost a game 4-0 in his soccer coaching career. Tottenham Spurs beat Manchester City 4-0 and City have now lost 3 games in succession.

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The major part of 4.5 million deaths have been saved in the US just by the decline in smoking. About 4.5 times the losses during Covid pandemic 4.5 million American saved lives just from the efforts to cut smoking of the last 2 decades, and better cancer screening and treatments. Stopping cigarette advertising saved millions of lives. It means letting processed food companies advertise freely, the FDA not doing its job by letting  companies use Red Dyes in food, and lobbyists for plastics companies not stopping PFAS contamination are all costing American lives in the hundreds of thousands. Cancer rate for women keeps increasing as men cancer rate drops. Men took up smoking in large numbers and the decline in smoking had a bigger impact for men's cancer rate. The overall cancer rate has dropped by 34% since 1991 largely because of the decline in smoking. Men's cancer is now almost even with women in 2021 compared to men having 1.6 times the rate of women in 1992. For women increase in breast feeding and having children at a younger age reduced some kinds of breast cancers, as women had children later, and higher use of alcohol, physical inactivity, obesity added to increase in cancer rates. ...

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Somini Sengupta cites the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs Report on unemployment in 2014 and projections for the future in a period of slower growth. One huge statistic- about one million Indians are expected to be added to the labor market every month for the next 15 years.

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Difficult conditions for public sector unions as state governors work to reduce deficits. A weak economy leads to concessions by private sector unions in 2010-2013. This is one of the most difficult periods in union history following the financial crisis of 2008 and large job losses in many industries, especially the auto industry. Maher describes conditions in different industries including telecom, auto, airlines oil, retail,and rail.

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Questions about the U.S. raid at Abottabad on May 1, 2011, that killed Osama Bin Laden. Was a Pakistani military helicopter involved in the raid as the Pakistanis say. President Obama said that the U.S. did not trust anyone, especially knowing where he was located. Abbottabad is 40 miles from Islamabad, and the location of a Pakistani military academy. Obama's statement that no intelligence was shared with the Pakistanis makes sense till the next question that comes up immediately.That question is how American helicopters took off close to the Osama compound- in an area with a large military presence- without the Pakistani military knowing.

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Asking for broad powers for the government to seize non-financial firms like AIG, Treasury secretary Geithner argued that if these powers existed the government could have seized AIG and incurred a far lower cost of rescuing the company. Fed chairman Bernanke supported Geithner in this position before a Congressional committee hearing.

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Le Monde gives a detailed look at the origins of the RN and Marie Le Pen in her father's party the Front Nationale that had it's origins in France's War in Algeria. It's first success was in town councils in the south east Cote de Azur where former French Algerians had settled in large numbers. Jean Le Pen was the son of a fisherman in the Brittany region who lost is life hitting a mine during the war in Occupied France. He was a teenager at the time and is shown here as a ward of the state. He tried to enlist in the War in Vietnam but got there just after Dien Bien Phu and worked in Saigon for a newspaper Caravelle. He returned to France and joined a paratrooper unit in the French Air Force during the Algerian War and became an opponent of De Gaulle's policy in Algeria to decolonize the region. He inherited the fortune of a French cement manufacturer who supported his party FN. Chirac and Sarkozy become his opponents. For 20 years after this he is shown to win anywhere between 2% and 10% in European and French presidential elections. His daughter Marie Le Pen and her supporters decided to rebrand the party as Reassemblement Nationale RN and win as much as 15-20% and more recently 30% of the vote in presidential and EU elections. The fatigue with Macron leads to a surge in RN support in small towns and rural France. Marie changes her stance on the EU willing to support the EU. ...

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The U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman, Janet Yellen, gets high marks in a July 2013 WSJ economist survey of who would be the most likely successor to chairman Bernanke. She gets high marks for abilities in shaping monetary policy, forging consensus, and communicating monetary policy.

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The UK Office for National Statistics shows Britain's GDP declined by 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011, compared to the prior quarter. The figures showed a drop in business investment. Polls by ComRes, show 51% of people in Britain see the government austerity cuts as having an adverse effect on the economy, with cuts being larger and coming too quickly.