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Fiscal Cliff: If You Aren’t Worried, Here’s Why You Should Be

Economists are not known for being alarmists or particularly prone to hyperbole -- remember all of those hemming and hawing, obscure and opaque phrases that former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was famous for? So when they all start using a term like “fiscal cliff” to describe the simultaneous onset of big tax increases and spending cuts in the United States scheduled for Jan

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France To Ban Pesticide Believed Harmful To Bees

France's agriculture ministry intends to revoke a key permit allowing the use of a pesticide believed by scientists to harm bumblebee and honeybee populations. Manufactured by the Swiss agricultural company Syngenta AG ( NYSE : SYT), the Cruiser ORS pesticide is used to coat rape seeds so crops are better protected as they sprout from the ground. However, recent scientific studies indicated the pesticide may disrupt the nervous systems of bees as they land on and pollinate crops

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Cheap Natural Gas Displaces Coal, Hammers Railroad Revenue, Share Prices

U.S. utilities are switching from coal to less-expensive natural gas to generate electricity, a cost-saving move that results in decreased railway shipments of the fossil fuel and lower revenue for railroads.  Coal's share of U.S

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