Odds ‘n Sods:

The Werewolf (our correspondent in Brazil) mentioned a free web site with 883,542 downloadable manuals on 3,627 brands of products.

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Frequent contributor Cheryl N. spotted this: Sharp US money supply contraction points to Wall Street crunch ahead. As I’ve been warning for nearly a year, the global credit collapse is going to have some profound and long-lasting effects, and thusfar we are nowhere near the bottom.

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Ogre sent us a link to an article about Fannie and Freddie’s Uncertain Future

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And from Eric, comes this expected news: Food prices to post biggest rise since 1990: USDA