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Across our screens today:

• Double take: Five reasons isn’t working and five reasons it is.
• If , who is doing the spending? The , says a new Gallup poll. (Surprise!)
• The Feds still optimistic returns even while in the trenches of recession, says an Economist blog post: “the Fed didn’t appear to take signs of falling demand expectations seriously enough in the summer of 2008, and as a result its too-tight policy worsened subsequent economic performance.”
• [PDF], by Goldman Sachs.
• Two Congressmen federal subsidies for mohair – with a pair of goats and a walk in the park.
• It costs $222,360 to raise a child, at least according to new government estimates. Or does it? Planet Money takes a .
• Hawaii foreclosures still rising – only .
• Chaminade University receives a grant to help address racial inequality for native Hawaiians.

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