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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing Economics NEWS articles 1 through 22 of 22.
- Saddam Hussein once toyed with the notion of pricing his country’s oil in euros rather than dollars. It wasn’t long before George II began chanting "Axis of Evil" and "WMDs." The U.S. Air Force created a steel thunderstorm over Baghdad. A hundred thousand Iraqis, electricity and indoor plumbing became memories in Mesopotamia.
- How the Economic News is Spun
- HSA follows the same tortured logic as the president’s proposals to privatize Social Security, Medicare and pension programs. Simply, HSA is another attempt to cut the social safety net underneath the American middle class and use it as gift wrap for another tax holiday for the wealthy. HSA really should be called GIA — Go It Alone.
- A federal bankruptcy judge says the new bankruptcy law is good for one thing: allowing creditors to make more money off the backs of debt-ridden consumers
- Al-Qaida?
- The growth of hunger at one pole of society goes hand-in-hand with the unprecedented accumulation of personal wealth at the other. - It’s really all about breaking the back of the most democratic...of American institutions – the American middle class.
- VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS
- Russia's billionaires nearly doubled their fortunes over the last year on the back of sky-high commodity prices...
- "The days of inexpensive, convenient, abundant energy sources are quickly drawing to a close," according to a recently released US Army strategic report. The report posits that a peak in global oil production looks likely to be imminent, with wide reaching implications for the US Army and society in general.
- The average CEO now takes home a paycheck 431 times that of their average worker. Does he really work that hard?
- There is social control in loading young people up with financial obligations. Burdened with debt and desperate to have and keep a job, there is no way they can take a wild year off and certainly no time for protesting, organizing or causing the kind of social and political trouble young people cause from time to time.
- People tend to look for scapegoats as they become more insecure about their own economic livelihood and remain badly informed.
- ...what if the Saudi oilfields are running lower on untapped supplies than the kingdom, and the West, have estimated?
- How income inequality has intensified under Bush
- To become competitive centers for corporate banking, first South Dakota and then Delaware removed their "usury ceilings" about 25 years ago. Usury laws are state legislation designed to prevent lenders from charging exorbitant or usurious interest rates on loans and credit.
- A lot of fossil fuel goes into producing, packaging and shipping our breakfast
- Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future.
- As significant as the national data is, foreclosure and delinquency rates for regions most neglected, abandoned, or destroyed by consequences of capitalism are the most revealing. - "Looks like we can go now Dave, the next shift's just turned up."
- INFO CORROBORATED BY THREE SEPARATE U.S. TREASURY SOURCES
- Meanwhile, the share of national income going to wage and salary workers has fallen to 56.9%. Except for a brief period in 1997, that's the lowest share for labor income since 1966
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