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One of the reasons Wall Street had cooked up this new industry called structured finance was that its old-fashioned business was every day less profitable.

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Whatever England are cooking up, Fiji will not be compliant test subjects.

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All of this is to say, it seems difficult to stop the “death that’s coming in” if drug labs can just cook up something else.

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The New York Post reported that Republicans are considering invoking the Constitution’s “insurrection clause” — a back-room scheme cooked up to deny the will of voters and prevent Zohran Mamdani from being sworn in.

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"It is time to just show the people what we were cooking up," Rihanna told reporters.

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