Economy
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The Cookie Crumbles (James Howard Kunstle)
James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 12, 2011 -- A lot can happen in two weeks, which is what remains before the glorious orgy of gifts, sugar plums, and roast goose. ...
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Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2011 -- There is a growing convergence of thinking about where the U.S. Occupy movement should go as a next step to turning its ...
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MF Global And The Great Wall St Re-Hypothecation Scandal (Christopher Elias)
Image from Business Insider Dec. 7, 2011 (Business Law Currents) -- A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money ...
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U.S. Stocks Rally on Global Bank Central Liquidity Move (Rita Nazareth)
Nov. 30, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose, sending benchmark gauges higher for a third day, after central banks acted together to make additional funds available to lenders as Europe’s crisis ...
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Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Rate on Dollar Swaps (Scott Lanman and Jeff Black)
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve cut the cost of emergency dollar funding for European banks as part of a globally coordinated central-bank response to the continent’s sovereign-debt ...
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Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests (Jim Miles)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- I did not catch as much of Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole program, then ...
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Occupy Revolution (Joel S. Hirshhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 21, 2011 -- History tells us that it is nearly impossible to know in real time whether some kind of national, grassroots public protest ...
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Non-violence does not have to be passive (Jim Miles)
Nov. 21, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- I have just watched the video of the University of California students at Davis against the heavily armed police that is becoming prominent on many internet ...
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PILLOW TALK: Dear Hunters (Deborah Goodwin)
This moose hung around our place for a few days last winter. We named him(?) Hector Nov. 18, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- It's hunting season here in Vermont -- deer hunting with rifles right now -- I ...
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PILLOWTALK: Rage Against The Machine (Deborah Goodwin)
A really arresting image (no pun intended) Nov. 8, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- Yesterday the evil corporations ruined my day. It only took one: The evil, incompetent, bankrupt communications corporation ...
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PILLOWTALK: How Hard Could It Be? (Deborah Goodwin)
"Our Simple Pumpkin, Halloween 2011" courtesy of Jackie Knoch Shitemi Nov. 1, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- I was missing good bread, bakery bread, chewy "artisan" bread, baguettes in particular. Like the ...
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