Tag: economy
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December 04, 2008 01:53 PM EST --
The story -- It goes without saying that there is a lot of confusion about just how the $700 billion in federal bailout money is being spent.
If there is a strategy to it, if Treasury Secretary . . .
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October 10, 2008 10:55 AM EDT --
When I lived in Buenos Aires in the late 1980s as a correspondent for The Washington Post, Argentina’s economy was going through spasms of hyperinflation. My office was in the heart of the financial district, . . .
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November 07, 2008 01:17 PM EST --
I think its a good chance for Americans to start recognising our national holidays for what they are instead of just using them as an excuse to buy more of what we do not need
For the third year . . .
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November 30, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
The world is spending $300 billion every year to subsidize fossil fuels that pollute the air, wreck the climate ... and run the world's economy.
So what if we, as taxpayers, stopped spending . . .
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September 05, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
September 5, 2008
YORK, Pa.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republicans at their national convention are attacking him to avoid talking about . . .
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September 18, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
Food, financial debacles bring the r-word back in fashion in Washington D.C.
Its comming back in fascion by the neocons that got rid of it.
The 30-year era of deregulation came to a sudden and . . .
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November 26, 2008 05:59 PM EST --
The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank "Nationalization" -- By F. William Engdahl
On Friday November 21, the world came within a hair’s breadth of the most colossal financial collapse . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
As far as I am concerned the bailout should not happen under any circumstances.
Congress is acting prudently by not quickly authorizing the administration's $700 billion bailout plan. . . .
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September 26, 2008 06:13 PM EDT --
"Lew Rockwell" -- - Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, . . .
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November 08, 2008 09:14 AM EST --
Once again, I am proud to be an American. I look forward to America again gaining the respect of the world and again living up to the
ideals and promise that our founding fathers put forward in the . . .
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December 14, 2008 04:07 PM EST --
By Antal E Fekete -- A landmark in the saga of the collapsing international monetary system was signaled on December 2, when gold went to backwardation for the first time in history.
Backwardation . . .
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March 25, 2009 09:30 PM EDT --
The big problem with Tim Geithner's plan to fix the banks is the same as it ever was: The gap between what banks say their assets are worth and what the market says they are worth.
When a bank . . .
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October 14, 2009 03:08 PM EDT --
By Richard C. Cook
It's too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. . . .
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September 18, 2008 05:23 PM EDT --
Its about time Obama started campaigning against McCain and leaves Palin to go back to her igloo.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised new ideas Thursday to calm America's financial . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
WASHINGTON--Having spent part of my life in the developing world, I know that the nationalization of an industry or an institution is an act of robbery perpetrated under the pretense of altruism--sort . . .
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September 24, 2008 03:22 PM EDT --
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February 25, 2009 05:58 AM EST --
Tapped by the Republican party to deliver the GOP's response to President Barack Obama's congressional address Tuesday night, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took on the massive stimulus package and . . .
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March 08, 2009 12:27 PM EDT --
Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation . . .
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September 10, 2008 05:03 PM EDT --
Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers' requests for funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though Palin . . .
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September 21, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
To bad these phonies didn't speak up in the beginning instead of supporting this fascist bailout.
Many of the same economists and opinion-makers who'd provided a bipartisan sheen of consensus . . .
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