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Morning Reading

Scott Jagow Aug 28, 2009

How could we possibly be worried about running out of water? Well, read on. That’s one of this morning’s top picks:

Peak water? (The Burning Platform)

We could be headed for fewer, bigger banks (Fortune)

“Too big to fail banks” are even bigger (Washington Post)

Deficits save the world (New York Times) Your daily dose of Keynesian, I mean, Krugman economics.

In health care debate, fear trumps logic (NPR)

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