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Entries by Diane Francis from 04/2010

Legalize Drugs, Balance Budgets

| Posted 04.07.2010 | Business
Read More: Pot, California Budget Crisis, Marijuana, Legalize Marijuana, California, Dea, Vansterdam, Business News

Trafficking for export is very illegal in Canada, but it appears as though one of the biggest markets, California, is likely to legalized cannibis in the November 2 elections.

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Tiger Redo Working So Far

| Posted 04.15.2010 | Sports
Read More: Tiger Woods Mistress, Tiger Woods Affair, Masters, Mickelson, Tiger Woods Scandal, Tiger Woods, Sports News

I won a bet that Tiger Woods would not win the Masters this weekend because his rebranding would have been derailed if he had gone out there, automaton-like, and swept through the course to win his fifth green blazer. So he didn't.

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Goldman Nailed Finally

| Posted 04.19.2010 | Business
Read More: Henry Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Sec, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

Goldman Sachs deserves to lose the lifeline extended to it and its biggest accounts receivable, AIG.

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Obama Games China

| Posted 04.27.2010 | Business
Read More: Currency Manipulation, Nuclear Summit, President Obama, Yuan, Beijing, China Currency Manipulation, Timothy Geithner, India, Brazil, China, Business News

It will be interesting to see if all this face-saving, indirect pressure will work. With Brazil and others joining the fray, it's likely the yuan will start its quiet climb in May or June.

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