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Things I Learned Today
2008-01-30   8:19 p.m.

A) Foreign direct investment has become a staggeringly large proportion of world gross product.

B) Currency speculation - as a practice, an entity, whatever - has reared up suspiciously close to most governmental/economic collapses.

C) The "global wage" crises, which is another way of terming that a bunch of the world's workers produce stuff for $3/day, while a smaller bunch of workers produce stuff for $100+/day, is rendering wage depression for the latter inevitable.

D) A+B+C= Not sure if I want to have kids anytime this century.

E) "The state of our union is strong", according to W. Didn't notice, gotta look that one up.

E) Squat-thrusts are an endeavor not to be taken lightly, much like plank push-ups and attempting to reupholster furniture by yourself.

F) The rent on Heath Ledger's apartment in SoHo is $24k per month.

G) My mom used to run three or four times a week.

H)AxEx charges you $17 if you are late paying your bill, even by thirty minutes.