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By Chris Mayer
THE RAILS RETURN
The Chinese are expanding there railway system by leaps and bounds…and recently, two of the world's most savvy investors took a sudden interest in the......

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By David Petch
USD and Commodities Review
I thought it would be better to present a market roundup rather than just the XOI, given the speed with which the market has moved the past few days. ......

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By Richard Daughty
Unemployment Survival Guide
"All of this unemployment must be impacting demand for goods and services, which may be what prompted Jim Sinclair of jsmineset.com to ask a lot of qu......

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Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really? People & Power investigates

Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really? People & Power investigates.

	Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert Beijing is steering a push toward wind and solar power, while the U El Niño Variant Is Linked to Hurricanes in Atlantic The discovery that a periodic warming pattern in the central Pacific Ocean is linked to more frequent hurricanes in the Atlantic may help improve forecasts A House in the Woods, After the Woods Are Gone In the dense forests of Montana, the pine trees surrounding the writer?s house have been turning red and dying because of an infestation of beetles City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup City officials have proposed an alternate plan for the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, in hopes of avoiding a Superfund listing that might lead to litigation and other delays With Something for Everyone, Climate Bill Passed The energy bill that passed in the House was loaded with hundreds of special-interest favors, as environmentalists lamented that its aims had been diminished A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics There is now somewhere to take some of the 99 E.P.A. Grants California the Right to Enforce Emissions The move reverses a 2008 ruling by the Bush administration and effectively ends an eight-year political battle between automakers and environmental regulators E.P.A. Lists ?High Hazard? Coal Ash Dumps An advisory said ratings were for 44 sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life Obama Toughens Rules for Some Lighting The new rules will cut the amount of electricity used by affected lamps by 15 to 25 percent and save up to $4 billion a year for consumers, the White House said Dams Are Thwarting Louisiana Marsh Restoration, Study Says A large area of marshlands will be lost despite a plan to restore the flow of muddy water, scientists reported Algae Farm Aims to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel Dow Chemical?s long-term interest in the ethanol produced by the algae is as a replacement for natural gas to make plastic Congressional Memo: Climate Change Bill May Be Election Issue Leading Democrats say they are more than happy to have the energy bill serve as a signature issue because it represents a transformative moment National Briefing \| Northwest: Oregon: Logging Rule Is Overturned A federal judge struck down the Bush administration?s change to a rule intended to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests National Briefing \| Midwest: Wolves to Return to Endangered List More than 4,000 gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list, at least temporarily Beetles Add New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts More than seven million acres of trees have been killed by the tiny insects, complicating experts? efforts to reduce wildfires