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Coke CEO: If You’re Fat, Blame Yourself, Not Us

By | 10.08.09 | 8:43 am

Henry Blodget at Clusterstock points out that Coke CEO Muhtar Kent penned a Wall Street Journal editorial that suggests people are fat and lazy all on their own, and not because of his company’s product. Kent wrote his pithy observations Wednesday to protest a possible soda tax to More…

The Old ‘My Wife Made Me Buy It’ Excuse for the Mortgage Mess

By | 05.29.09 | 8:55 am

When New York Times economic reporter Edmund Andrews penned his memoir of buying an overpriced house that led to his family facing foreclosure, he attempted to depict himself as an everyman caught up the financial crisis. If it happened to someone like him, it could happen to you.

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