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Toyota slashing bonuses and production
(michiganmessenger.com)
The American automakers are not the only ones being hit hard by dramatic sales decreases in America and around the world. Automotive News reports that Toyota is cutting bonuses, production and... More
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Postville author rips Culver and Judge on Agriprocessors
(iowaindependent.com)
Long before Postville made national headlines as the site of a massive immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant last May, author Stephen Bloom had spent years in the community and... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
Morning Roundup: Around the Web in a Sneaky Green Disguise
(airamerica.com)
The New York Times recaps the Big Three's quest for free money. It seems the take away message here is that if you act contrite, the government will give you money. Such pageantry! The Big Three... More
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Is the Latest Eco-Term Just Corporate Hype?
(www.alternet.org)
In early 2008, the Coca-Cola Company began making public claims that it would become "the most efficient company in the world in terms of water use in the beverage industry." Central to the company's... More
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Christmas with No Presents :: No Impact Man enjoys the holidays without all the stuff
(www.yesmagazine.org)
If Christmas is about presents, then in 2007, my little family and I had no Christmas. I mean, we had the caroling and the uncle playing the piano and the cousins running around with my... More
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Uncle Sam needs to go shopping. Not us
(www.salon.com)
When confronted with the news that Wal-Mart shoppers were so eager to take advantage of a Black Friday sale that they trampled an employee to death, most people are, quite naturally, appalled. My... More
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Imagining a New New Deal
(www.thenation.com)
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political... More
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Beyond the Bailout State
(www.thenation.com)
On a December day in 1932, with the country prostrate under the weight of the Great Depression, ex-president Calvin Coolidge--who had presided over the reckless stock market boom of the Jazz Age... More
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Dow plunges again, Friedman fans despair
(www.salon.com)
It would be tempting to blame Ben Bernanke's bleak assessment of the current economic situation, in a speech in Austin, Texas, on Monday, for yet another debilitating market swoon -- the Dow closed... More
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Recession Dating
(www.motherjones.com)
When NBER eventually gets around to dating the 2008 recession, when will they decide it started? My money is on December 2007. And when will they date the end? I'd guess March 2009.
Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |
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