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A showroom employee displays tablet computers from Taiwan's top two PC vendors, Acer Inc. and AsusTek Computer Inc. in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Dozens of global computer firms and their obsession to get a piece of the expanding tablet computing market will be on full display Tuesday May 31, 2011, as Computex, the world's second largest computer show, begins its annual five-day run in Taipei. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) (AP)

The abandoned and decaying Packard Motor Car Manufacturing plant, built in 1907 and designed by Albert Kahn, is seen near downtown Detroit, Michigan June 21, 2009. As communities from Buffalo to Milwaukee struggle with shuttered factories and vacant neighborhoods, some have turned abandoned properties into parks, gardens and other open space, even going so far as to plow under entire neighborhoods. In Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors, a pioneering program that allows local government to capture profits from tax foreclosures has generated funds to demolish over 1,000 abandoned homes in the past five years. Picture taken June 21. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) (Â© Rebecca Cook / Reuters)

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President Barack Obama leaves the stage after a news conference at the G-20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

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Bad timing alert: Rage against free trade

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Tarek El-tablawy

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Jesse Washington

Radio and television personality Glenn Beck appears on the "FOX & friends" cable television program in New York, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (Associated Press)

Fancy some Velveeta on your chocolate?

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Paramilitary policemen hold a Chinese national flag during a parade training session at a military base on the outskirts of Beijing September 27, 2009. The huge national flag will debut on October 1 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Picture taken September 27, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA ANNIVERSARY MILITARY POLITICS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA (Reuters)

Brandon Dodd, right, listens to Rene Torres, a recruitment associate with the Social Security Administration at a career fair, Thursday, July 2, 2009 in Oak Brook, IL Employers nationally cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (M. Spencer Green)

Unemployment will stick around -- if we let it

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How the rich steal from the poor

Farmers work on a paddy field near a cement factory in Sai Son village, outside Hanoi

America is rusting because of free trade

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