Pet projects gone awry (The Star)

It’s time we acknowledge that local automotive manufacturers will not make any serious headway if we continue to give them special treatment.

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Inflation rate climbs (The Burlington Free Press)

The Northeast saw it's second-highest monthly inflation rate since 1990.

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Top 17 2008 New Cars That Just Won't Sell - Some Obvious, Some Surprises (The Auto Channel)

Washington DC July 16, 2008; The AIADA newsletter reported that as the economy worsens and every new auto industry sales report seems worse than the previous month's, will automakers still be able to sell every one of their vehicles?

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ECONOMIC REPORT: Consumer Prices Jump 1.1% In June (Nasdaq)

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- Double-digit increases in gasoline prices helped push the nation's consumer price index higher by 1.1% in June, the biggest increase since Hurricane Katrina nearly three years ago, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

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NADAguides.com Provides New and Used Car Pricing for iPhone Users (The Auto Channel)

COSTA MESA, Calif., July 14 -- Owners of the new iPhone(TM) 3G from Apple(R) (as well as the first-generation iPhone and iPod touch) have easy access to new and used car prices via the NADAguides.com iPhone site, iphone.nadaguides.com, allowing them to access car prices within a few strokes.

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NADAguides.com Provides New and Used Car Pricing for iPhone Users (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Owners of the new iPhone 3G from Apple® have easy access to new and used car prices via the NADAguides.com iPhone site, iphone.nadaguides.com, allowing them to access car prices within a few strokes.

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Forget those retirement plans (Asia Times)

And if you think things aren't too bad and that you just have to hold on, hold on, hold tenaciously on until you retire, which is when you can start consuming all that money you have invested in your retirement plans, then Larry Edelson of MoneyandMarkets.com has some information that will make you crazy.

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