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No one's going to sound an alarm, blast out a text message, or shoot you an email about it, but the US economy is undergoing a historic shift. We are leaving one long period of expansion — what economists refer to as a "supercycle" — and entering a very different one.
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Doug Mattison just wanted to cancel his gym membership.
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The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post.
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When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.
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Lana Linge has $42,000 in credit-card debt, but it's not the giant tab that has her most frustrated.
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Sure, Wall Street. Go ahead. Ride the dragon.