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  • As the following charts show, the big spike-up in bonds at the end of 2008, which was also fueled by economic worries and a declining stock market, ended on December 18, 2008, even as worries about the economy worsened further, and almost three months before the stock market ended its severe 2007-2009 bear market (on March 10, 2009).

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  • These tax hikes would be so big, in fact, that top-bracket taxpayers might end up paying a rate of 67 percent on ordinary income and nearly 50 percent on capital gains.

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  • Having already been linked with plenty of big clubs, he was still with North End when he earned a surprise call-up to an injury-depleted England squad in March 2007.

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  • If they amass front-end tax liabilities, because they have such a short window to earn big cash, they end up with less than expected.

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