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Monday, May 12, 2008

by THE AMERICAN last modified Friday, May 9, 2008

Ten years after the euro was launched, ‘its role as a global currency is secure, even if it hasn't achieved everything its founders hoped’. . . A new study finds that if a stay-at-home mom were compensated according to her market value, she would earn almost $117,000 a year. . . In 2007, ‘foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean hit a record of over $100 billion’. . . Arthur Brooks argues that children ‘don't make most parents happier’. . . When will the housing crisis end?

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