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This (below) is an excerpt  from a piece in Washington Post today (Sunday the 29th of March 2009)….regarding tax havens, and more particularly Switzerland’s bank privacy laws coming under much pressure (bout time!) I giggled not a little upon uttering the words out loud to myself seen below: “the little wiseguy countries.”   “The world has had…

“The trash man is the first one to know about a recession because we see it first,” said Richard S. Weber, manager of the Loudoun County landfill. “Circuit City’s closing, so people aren’t going there and buying those big boxes of stuff and throwing away all that Styrofoam and shrink-wrap . . . and whatever…