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Worried about inflation? Fidelity packages an offering of funds and analysis on the potential threat of inflation (tags: inflation investing) SunPower Solar Projects Lose Key Player | TheStreet.com Both the SunPower and First Solar potential solar-farm pipelines look good on paper. It's the timeline to completion, and the threat of permitting delays followed by appeals … Read more

First Solar's U.S. Ambitions Slowed | TheStreet.com When First Solar acquired OptiSolar earlier this year, the $400 million deal was supposed to push the company into a preeminent position in the nascent U.S. large-scale solar-project business. But several developments on Tuesday placed those plans in doubt and may have left investors with questions about First … Read more

Art Cashin: Class Warfare a Threat to US Recovery — CNBC "It's bubbling up again, all this 'Wall Street versis Main Street' stuff…If we could get back to work again instead of pointing fingers, things in this country would go a lot better." (tags: ArtCashin stock_market) Five Questions for a Keynesian – The NBR Blog … Read more

A Rising Euro Poses a Threat to Parts of Bloc – WSJ.com The euro is overvalued by between 7% and 8% relative to other major currencies, and a further rise could be a "serious concern" for the more open euro-zone economies, the European Commission said. (tags: currency euro Europe) Bonds Are Signaling a Stronger Recovery … Read more

I Am a Death Panelist. I Am Not the Problem. – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com …among health economists there is near universal agreement that about 30 percent of health care spending — more than $700 billion a year — does no good. (tags: health_care)