Economy Watch
from Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP), 3/11/10
Overshadowed by narco-violence, another showdown with far-reaching consequences is unfolding near the Mexico-U.S. border. Striking workers have occupied a Grupo Mexico-owned copper mine and vow to...
from Addustour [Jordan], 3/1/10
Following the bankruptcy of American banks and giant brokerage firms such as Lehman Brothers, the global financial crisis entered a phase of national bankruptcy, which included Greece with the...
from Huffington Post, 3/15/10
It's been eighteen months since AIG collapsed, and Congress has yet to seriously focus on the most important questions: What did they know and when did they know it?
"What"...
from Information Clearing House, 3/12/10
The “golden” years of the U.S. economy in the immediate post-WW II period, along with the recovery and expansion of the economies of other industrialized countries, afforded the...
from l’Humanité, 3/13/10
How do we talk about the “invisible work” of women? Would it be a provocative thing to do, when 80% of women are actively employed? When they study, earn a living, become...
from International Development Economics Associates [IDEAs], 3/12/10
It is sad and surprising that among the deluge of comments and letters on Greece in the European papers in the...
from MRzine, 3/12/10
It is no secret that something must be done about our healthcare system -- and soon. Even those lucky enough to have good coverage are aware that the current system is unsustainable. ...
from TomDispatch.com, 3/12/10
Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-...
from the New Internationalist, March 2010
On 1 January 2010, the China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area went into effect. Touted as the world’s biggest Free Trade Area, CAFTA is billed as having 1.7...
from Moscow News, 3/4/10
As expected, the economic crisis has led to social unrest. Most workers have seen little result from the victory over the crisis that government officials and observers announced as far back as...
from ZNet, 3/10/10
What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get?
How is it possible that after near three years of...
from The Bullet [Socialist Project, Canada], 3/11/10
A striking feature of the global financial crisis is the narrow and technical focus on banks and financial corporations without accounting for ordinary workers in these institutions and in society...
from TripleCrisis.com, 3/9/10
International conferences on poverty and the environment come and go. There’s always a big pachyderm in the meeting room. It’s got the words “macroeconomic policy” written...
from spectrezine.org, 3/10/10
British transport workers' union RMT is joining forces with rail unions across Europe to protest in Lille, France on Tuesday April 13 to demand ‘Rail Safety - Not EU Rail Liberalisation...
from Chicago Political Economy Group, 2/1/10
The following is excerpted from a working paper, "A Financial Transaction Tax: Revenue Potential and Economic Impact." Read the whole paper...
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