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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 22, 2011

  Ever since their engagement announcement in November 2010, and even after their greatly anticipated royal wedding at Westminster Abbey last April, Prince William’s lovely bride — the former Kate Middleton, now Duchess Kate of Cambridge — still captivates. The media and millions of people, even those outside the UK, attentively watch Kate for her [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 13, 2011

  The U.S. housing market has been hit far worse than was originally believed or reported… The bad news on home sales, reported by CNBC, Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years: Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 11, 2011

  Sign of the times — Hollywood films royally choked this weekend, with the worst ticket sales for the whole year. The worst since September 2008. Our economy is still in the toilet, unemployment looks less awful on paper when you disregard all the unemployed people not included in the stats who have given up [...]

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