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| Feb 12, 2024
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” —Mr. Micawber (fictional character in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) Twenty pounds…
OXFORD, Miss. — President-elect Obama has announced plans for a new stimulus package containing $500 billion to $700 billion worth of public works projects. The package would be “the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the federal…