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Ever lose something and then when you find it, you are so relieved? Well, we found it, but relief is the wrong word...we'll save ourselves 700 shekels (about $180) - so that's good. But it also means my procrastinating is over. Tomorrow, I'm going to go and exchange the old gas masks we were issued long ago with current ones. What a concept this is, I want to shout out. No, I don't want a gas mask! I don't want to put it on; I don't want to even look at it! I don't remember when or how I was...

Government officials are scrambling to come up with ways to sell debt even if the nation’s debt ceiling isn’t raised by early next week, though officials are remaining silent on just what course of action they might take, and it’s unclear if any of the options discussed would be enough to meet the country’s massive borrowing needs, the FOX Business Network has learned. The issue of how to borrow outside the debt limit emerged during a regularly scheduled, though timely meeting, Friday between officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and 20 banks that buy US debt. Government officials...