AP – Here’s a look at the Vice Fund, a mutual fund that specializes in buying the “sin stocks” of companies in the cigarette, alcoholic beverage, gambling and defense contracting industries:
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A look at the Vice Fund
(AP)
AP – Here’s a look at the Vice Fund, a mutual fund that specializes in buying the “sin stocks” of companies in the cigarette, alcoholic beverage, gambling and defense contracting industries:
Here is the original:
A look at the Vice Fund
(AP)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates had no choice but to sign orders deploying hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan recently because NATO trainers had not arrived. The sooner Afghan security forces are trained, the sooner American and NATO troops can go home.
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