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Obama signs patent reform bill – CNN.com "We have to do everything we can to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit wherever we find it," Obama said at a signing ceremony at a high school in Arlington, Virginia. This measure "cuts away the red tape that slows down our inventors and entrepreneurs." (tags: patents patent_law Obama reform)

Census: 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty  | ajc.com The ranks of the nation's poor swelled to nearly 1 in 6 people last year, reaching a new high as long-term unemployment woes left millions of Americans struggling and out of work. The number of uninsured edged up to 49.9 million, the biggest in over … Read more

Popping the gold bubble theory – Bill Fleckenstein – MSN Money it recently occurred to me that virtually no one who recognized the tech-stock and/or real-estate bubble now says that gold is a bubble. In fact, almost all of us who identified those bubbles long before they burst actually own gold, and have for quite … Read more

Swiss Franc Peg – Swiss Central Bank Move 'Huge Mistake': Jim Rogers – CNBC The move "will work for a while, but the market will have more money in the end than the SNB," Rogers, who was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros, told CNBC.com. The Swiss central bank risks losing "a … Read more