<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1608372b-facb-462b-a857-6ee0855b86b7/F4504CB9-5405-4127-B074-7A84C7202DC2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/" href="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/" style="font-size: 11px;">dailyreckoning.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/">For yet another in <STRONG>the litany of signs pointing in the direction of social change towards thrift</STRONG>, have a look at what is transpiring at the upper echelons of the income strata </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/"> Women are apparently opting for the ‘natural look’ – “some people are selectively replacing higher-priced items with cheaper products</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">And here’s the CEO of Pepsico:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">“The age of thrift is here.”</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Even solvent homeowners who aren’t forced into foreclosure still find it beneficial to walk away from their houses. “Strategic defaults,’ says <EM aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">The Los Angeles Times</EM>, are becoming a problem for mortgage lenders.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dailyreckoning.com/theres-no-flu-shot-for-the-thrift-bug/"> <P>The <EM>Telegraph</EM> reports:</p> <P>“Crucially, <STRONG>China and rising Asia have reached the point where they can no longer keep holding down their currencies to boost exports</STRONG> because this is causing mayhem to their own economies, stoking asset bubbles. Asia’s ‘mercantilist mindset’ of recent decades is about to be broken by the spectre of an inflation spiral.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F4504CB9-5405-4127-B074-7A84C7202DC2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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