Economy
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 2, 2008 Rage fatigue, plastic dirt, and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Green China? (Stephen S. Roach)
China has a rare and important opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. A successful rebalancing of the Chinese economy -– moving away from excess reliance on investment and exports and ...
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Collapse Of Global Stocks? Welcome To The Global Systemic Crisis Impact Phase (LEAP/E2020)
What lags behind the ongoing stock crisis? This question is in the air these days due to global stocks current rout.
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Dispatch From The Chinese Landfill -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantSure it’s the Devil’s fine red tongue, but it’s too much fun to quit Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Jan. 5, 2007 Despite the bad name he has with liberals these days, Jesus did have the ...
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Somewhere A Banker Smiles -- Muffled Noises From The Ranks Of The Babbling Paranoid (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2006 -- It’s hard as hell to keep conspiracy theories out of one’s mind these days. And I’m not talking about “Who really brought down the Twin Towers?" or ...
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Pissing In The Liberal Punchbowl, Again -- Joe Bageant
The Democratic conga line in the American House of Lords Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Saw the talking heads today, speaking the priestly tongue. Saw them nodding seriously, using words like ...
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Bush’s Willing Legislators (Paul Craig Roberts)
The Case for Impeachment And Why It Won’t Happen By Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House Oct. 13, 2006 --The case for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney ...
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Why Bush Will Nuke Iran (Paul Craig Roberts)
by Paul Craig Roberts -- Lew Rockwell Sept. 26, 2006 -- The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they ...
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Is American Democracy Too Feeble To Deal With 9/11? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House Sept. 11, 2006 -- Alexander Hamilton is often portrayed as an early advocate of strong central government. But even Hamilton understood the danger ...
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Madmen And Sedatives: Contraband And Muffled Noises From Inside The Iron Theater -- Joe Bageant
Dey Be Monsters! Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2006 -- Nobody talks about it out loud, but a few million Americans are seriously doubting their sanity these days. Or having their sanity ...
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