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THE ECONOMY
General Motors will repurchase 200 million shares of its own company currently owned by the U.S. Treasury, but at a discounted rate, which means that American taxpayers will lose billions in the deal. Housing prices have risen for six months in a row, signaling a recovery beginning since the bubble burst six years ago. Analysts are closely watching the costs of building materials, including lumber, expecting increases. Pray about the real costs of the automotive company and bank bail-outs to the overall American economy.
HEALTH CARE
The Food and Drug Administration is is recommending new ways to regulate so-called compounding pharmacies after the outbreak of fungal meningitis that affected 620 people, killing 39 of them, earlier this year. Canadian researchers have enumerated some 85 drugs whose potency is negatively affected by eating grapefruit, including cholesterol-lowering drugs, anticancer agents, synthetic opiates and some psychiatric drugs. Pray for pharmaceutical companies and drug researchers to be alert to dangers and contra-indications. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5
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