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Slowdown echoes Great Depression, says Bank's deputy chief (Gerri Peev)
Aug. 26 (The Scotsman) -- THE severity of the current economic downturn has been likened to the Great Depression of the 1930s by the new deputy governor of the Bank of England.
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Oil Falls as Hurricane Gustav Weakens, Easing Damage Fears (Grant Smith and Alexander Kwiatkowski)
(Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell, reversing earlier gains, after Hurricane Gustav weakened, easing concern of widespread damage to drilling rigs and refineries.
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New Orleans Clears Out as Hurricane Gustav Takes Aim at Coast (Brian K. Sullivan)
(Bloomberg) -- Residents along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Mississippi fled their homes in cars, trains and buses as what may be ``the storm of the century'' headed for landfall in areas scoured by ...
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Massive Police Raids on Suspected Protestors in Minneapolis (Glenn Greenwald)
Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with sub-machine guns ...
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Cue Lloyd Bentsen (Mary Lyon)
Where is Lloyd Bentsen when we need him? The distinguished Texas Democratic Senator, who died two years ago, probably would be rolling over in his grave to see what’s happening now.
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New U.S. Census Data: Same Reality (Alex Carter)
(OurFuture.org) --Newly released data by the United States Census Bureau continues to show how much President George W. Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape.
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No Different This Time (John Michael Greer)
Aug. 27, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- The chorus of “Georgia On My Mind” that has flooded the Western media with broken-record persistence for the last few weeks, though it’s accomplished little else, ...
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The Tempo of Change (John Michael Greer)
Aug. 20, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the lessons of history is that change, no matter how drastic it appears on the pages of history books, is rarely anything like so sudden for those who live ...
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Idols of the Marketplace (John Michael Greer)
Aug. 13, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- As last week’s post suggested, the forces that keep American families stuck on an economic treadmill, trying to meet new and challenging conditions with old and ...
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Reviving the Household Economy -- Part II: The Decline & Fall of Home Economics (John Michael Greer)
Aug. 6, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- Raspberry jam, the ostensible subject of last week’s Archdruid Report post, is only one of hundreds of goods and services that until recently were produced almost ...
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Dem Convention -- Day 4: The Mile-High Milestone (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- A signature Stevie Wonder hit struck the perfect introductory note for this historic evening: “Signed Sealed and Delivered.” And we were. So was Barack Obama. It struck me ...
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