Odds ‘n Sods:

Eric mentioned this article from The Guardian newspaper, in England: Honey, they shrank the packets of food. Eric’s comment: All the more reason to purchase whole foods in bulk, learn how to process it into edibles, store it, etc. They cannot shrink the size of a 50 pound bag of red hard winter wheat.

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Eric also spotted this: Mother’ s Solar Heat Grabber

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Kevin A. flagged this: The US Housing Bubble’s Pop Could Doom Boomers by Lauren Tara LaCapra. It begins: “The collapse of the housing bubble will likely wipe away most – if not all – of the wealth families have accumulated over the last two decades, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.”

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Wolf sent us a link to a useful list of troubled banks, compiled ABC News.