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• Internet Advertising Ready To Take More Money Away From Newspapers - businessinsider
• Macklowe Moves to Regain Drake; Blackstone Buys In on a REIT - online.wsj
• MarketWatch Calls Out Fed To Disprove It Is Manipulating Index Futures - zerohedge
• The State of the Gift Card Economy - businesspundit
• Reis: Strip Mall Vacancy Rate Hits 10.6%, Highest on Record - calculatedriskblog

• Hotel-REIT Rally Faces Headwinds in 2010 - online.wsj
• Pimco's Gross on Fed MBS Purchases - calculatedriskblog
• Futures Slip Ahead of ADP Report - foxbusiness
• Time for Fed to disprove PPT conspiracy theory MarketWatch First Take - marketwatch
• Cavuto: Hush-Hush Meetings on Health Care - foxbusiness

• Fund flows firm suggests government bought stocks - marketwatch
• GMAC Q4 Loss Comes At $5 Billion A Week After Taxpayers "Acquire" The Defunct Company - zerohedge
• How The Housing Bubble Destroyed Our Future - businessinsider
• How The Government Payroll Replaced Goods-Producing Jobs - businessinsider
• REITs Look to Return to Retail Roots - online.wsj

• Don't try to time the market - Jan. 6, 2010 - money.cnn
• Nations Don't Trade With Each Other; Individuals Do - mjperry
• Buffalo's debt collectors accused of bullying - finance.yahoo
• Don't Even Try To Sell Your Home Now - consumerist
• This Is Going To Be A Barnburner Of A Recovery: 2X Bigger Than Experts Predict - mjperry

• Record Unemployment - ritholtz
• Lord Abbett offers discounts on new IRAs - investmentnews
• Investors Real Estate Trust Announces 2009 Distribution Allocation - money.cnn
• Rockefeller Foundation's push toward design and innovation - businessweek
• From The Chris Dodd Press Release: "I will be leaving to pursue other opportunities as..." - zerohedge