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Single Best Idea on an extraordinary Thursday.

David Gura emailed me, oh, tenish last night, it was after the Detroit Tigers had won. I remember that clearly.

But Gura emailed me and he said the news flow is just extraordinary.

And then when we were in the surveillance beauty rest,

it got more extraordinary.

And we greeted Thursday, not even know where to begin at 7 a.m. Action out of China, the Swiss National Bank cutting

interest rates to defend their currency from too much appreciation.

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