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MARION, Iowa -- Sitting in the cab of a $350,000 John Deere tractor pulling a $150,000 Deere corn planter, Greg Carson embodies modern American agriculture. It's capital-intensive, high-tech, efficient -- and now immensely profitable. Looking for ...

WASHINGTON -- It's being called the "battle of the beards" -- Paul Krugman versus Ben Bernanke. Both are eminent (and bearded) economists: Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and a prominent New York ...

"We still need to work extra hard to protect consumers from factors that should not affect the price of a barrel of oil. ... We can't afford a situation where speculators artificially manipulate markets."

-- President Obama, April 17

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WASHINGTON -- The Washington of conventional wisdom and the real Washington are two entirely different places. The Washington of conventional wisdom is overrun by well-paid insiders -- lobbyists, lawyers, publicists -- who systematically ...