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Michael Gutberlet, CEO of Kaweco Pen Company, a German penmaker founded in 1883, tells his industry peers that dirt-cheap Chinese copies are as big of a threat as the decline of handwriting.

By subletting a room in his San Jose apartment, cutting his housing costs by half, and later living in his in-laws’ basement for “dirt-cheap rent,” he amassed enough wealth by his early 30s to have the financial freedom to start his own firm.

The tax will inevitably hike costs on its famously dirt-cheap products and possibly crush the flowering industry—just seven years after Michigan became the 10th state to legalize recreational weed with an overwhelming popular mandate.

A petrochemical company has announced it intends to cut 60 jobs at a plant in East Yorkshire blaming high energy costs and "dirt-cheap" imports from China.

And unlike most doctors, these maggots are dirt-cheap and willing to die for your wound.