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Everything Is Always Hunky-Dory
Thar She Blows: The Last Hurrah for the Banking SystemBy Mike Whitney / July 28, 2008 The Bush administration will be mailing out another batch of “stimulus” checks in the very near future. There’s no way around it. The Fed … Continue reading
Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
With multiple crises on the horizon, survivalist views don’t seem as marginal as they did before.By Scott Thill / July 26, 2008. They used to be paranoid preparation nuts who built bomb shelters for a place to duck and cover … Continue reading
BushCo : Remember Them When You Lose Your Home
Full Court Press: Charles Kaiser on the Bush administration’s role in the subprime mortgage crisisBy Charles Kaiser / July 25, 2008 One of the most ignored aspects of the subprime mortgage catastrophe is the extremely active role the Bush administration … Continue reading
No One Is Willing to Join the Brigade to Take Preventive Action
We’re a Nation of Lemmings: Screw The Climate! We Want Our Cheap Gas!By Dave Lindorff / July 25, 2008 Listening to the endless stream of cars passing my house every day, and knowing, from watching them from my mailbox, that … Continue reading
Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics
Sen. Bernie Sanders (with Barack Obama): “The middle class is disappearing.”Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death.By Matt Taibbi / July 23, 2008 I am a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, Economy, Michelle Obama, Obama, Presidential Campaign
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The Economy : A Throw of the Dice
Here are the odds…By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2008 This article following these comments is a judgment by Mark Gongloff of the Wall Street Journal about “how bad” the US economy might get. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Gambling, Oil Prices, Stagflation, World Economy
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Expanding on Our Humanness and Sacredness
You Say You Want a Revolution?by Olga Bonfiglio Detroit, the once-proud capital of industrialization is now the paragon of de-industrialization and urban decay. General Motors’ July 15 announcement that it will cut white-collar employment costs by 20 percent is just … Continue reading
Texas Plans to Harness All the Hot Air
Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Projectby Kate Galbraith AUSTIN – Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project, providing a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state. The planned web of transmission lines … Continue reading
FILM : Michael Reynolds: "We Shoot from the Hip"
Refuse-nik: Michael Reynolds’ home in Taos, New Mexico, where he built a community of ‘earthships’ out of waste materialsEarthship Enterprise: The Ultimate Eco-Houseby Rob Sharp They are eco-friendly, bizarre-looking bolt holes, and have earned the name “earth ships” for the … Continue reading
Economy : Nearing a Tipping Point
Those Greenspan bubbles a’bursting…By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / July 16, 2008 It looks like the US economy has gotten itself into a ‘liquidity trap’; the blowback from Greenspan’s bubbles and banking deregulation. If we try to avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumer Prices, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Investments, Recession
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Phil Gramm : Don’t Worry, Be Happy
But it’s actually Wall Street where they’re whining. Or, shall we say, panicking?By William Greider / July 14, 2008 Phil Gramm, the senator-banker who until recently advised John McCain’s campaign, did get it right about a “nation of whiners,” but … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Campaign Finance, Economy, Wall Street
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Clear-Cut Logging: Not Such a Good Thing
The aerial photo of the bare slope and slide areas in the Stillman Creek drainage raised concerns at Weyerhaeuser, enough so that corporate officials did their own flyover, scouting landslides there and elsewhere in the Northwest. Photo: Steve Ringman, Seattle … Continue reading
