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Across our screens today:

• US on the , though the immediate may be challenging, says the President’s top economic adviser.
• Are foreclosures racist? One Reuters blogger .
• From the same blogger: How to a fiscal panic!
• The disparity between college spending on academics and athletics grows more vast. Schools spent a media of $84,446 per athlete in 2008 and a median of $13,349 per student in academic spending. (In Hawaii, the University of Hawaii’s athletics program is still $10 million in the hole.)
• How is U.S. government debt?
• of China’s high saving rate.
• Biggest national fails: Foreign Policy’s , a sixth annual look at the world’s most struggling countries.
• Hawaii’s .
• A new on state defined contribution and hybrid pension plans.
• get Hawaii firms hiring again.
• How the Fed to save homeowners.

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