There's plenty more to this report, including a proposed solution to fixing these broken economics, but you'll have to check out the links below for the full scoop.

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Worse, the scope of work pre-determines the solution by fixing the number and type of ads, often months before it is even clear whether so many ads are needed.

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There may not be any easy resolution to the political backstabbing in Washington and around our country, but there is an easy solution to fixing our murdered housing market.

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The real solution is in fixing the underlying problem: the design and certification of gun locks and gun safes.

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Atsushi Seike, a labour economist at Keio University, argues that, since the great bulk of older workers are company employees, the solution lies in fixing the corporate employment and retirement systems to allow people more easily to work for longer.

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The solution the president favours is fixing the value of the rupiah to the dollar at a rate of 5, 000-5, 500 by means of a currency board, as in Hong Kong or Argentina.

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For Ron Paul, fixing the housing market is a one-step solution: end the Fed.

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Oh, and there's a second semi-related part to all this rumormongering: Think Secret reports that Apple is one of several companies fixing to buy HipSolve Media, a small startup which offers a Windows Media-based solution for record labels to distribute DRM'd music downloads directly to consumers, bypassing online shops like the iTunes Music Store.

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