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Economic Update: There Are Alternatives

Updates on dangers in anti-bacterial soap, South African union to start socialist party, Germans retire abroad, billionaires’ whims shape health care. Major discussions of Obamacare and alternatives to capitalist bank scandals. Responses to emails on worker coops in US and on “regulated capitalism.”

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Updates on dangers in anti-bacterial soap, South African union to start socialist party, Germans retire abroad, billionaires’ whims shape health care. Major discussions of Obamacare and alternatives to capitalist bank scandals. Responses to emails on worker coops in US and on “regulated capitalism.”

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