Switching metaphors, the end of the day, Quantitative Easing is just a life preserver to keep the economy from drowning.

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The low-cost Internet telephone provider may have been tossed a tiny life preserver in its patent battle with telecom giant Verizon Communications .

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My next memory involves being at the bottom of a Costa Rican river wondering which direction was up and holding my breath while I waited for my life-preserver to sort things out which it did.

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