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The U.S. Economy: Designed to Fail (Richard C. Cook)
Feb. 28, 2009 (Global Research) -- President Barack Obama showed a great deal of gumption in standing before Congress last night delivering his first speech to the joint assembly. All the trappings ...
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A planet at the brink? (Michael T Klare)
Feb. 26, 2009 (Asia Times) -- The global economic meltdown has already caused bank failures, bankruptcies, plant closings, and foreclosures and will, in the coming year, leave many tens of millions ...
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VIX Premium Shows Stocks Bear Market Lasting 2 Years (Jeff Kearns and Gareth Gore)
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Options investors are paying twice this decade’s average to protect against losses in U.S. stocks through 2011, signaling the bear market that already wiped out $10.4 trillion ...
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Stocks Drop Worldwide as Treasuries Advance on Concern Economies Worsening (Adam Haigh)
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Europe and Asia fell, U.S. futures slumped and Treasuries rose as Warren Buffett said the economy is in a “shambles” and American International Group Inc. announced ...
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Jupiter's Red Spot Not As Great (AIP)
Scientists deduce that Jupiter's Great Red Spot has shrunk over the past dozen years
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'There will be blood' (Heather Scoffield)
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson predicts prolonged financial hardship, even civil war, before the ‘Great Recession' ends
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Class Warfare (William Chirolas)
March 1, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Obama's campaign promises, clones of the promises made by Hillary, have been submitted to Congress as the budget outline. If it is not just talk, it will be ...
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Pawns with Lawns (Mickey Z.)
Mar. 1, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The single most irrigated crop in the United States is… (drum roll please) lawn. Yep, 40 million acres of lawn exist across the Land of Denial and Americans ...
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Engaging Hamas: Will History Repeat Itself? (Ramzy Baroud)
Feb. 28, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning that was reported ...
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Of Swans And Turkeys (Dmitry Orlov)
Asking an economist to predict the future is like asking the Christmas turkey what's for dinner on Christmas
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Of, By, and For The People (Hal Cohen)
Unless an idea is bite sized, nobody can wrap their head around it
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