Economy Watch
Miners' Battle Across Borders
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...
Bankruptcy: From Banks to Nations
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...
AIG Revelations Come Up a Little Short
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"...
Back to Market Fundamentalism
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...
Giving Voice to Invisible Workers
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...
Trade Imbalance Threatens Euro Monetary Union
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...
Sold My Soul to the Company Store
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. ...
Ponzi Nation
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-...
China's Neo-Colonialism
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...
Putin and Europe on the Same Crisis Page
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...
What Are They Waiting For?
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...
Workers, Banking, and Crisis in Mexico
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...
Macroeconomic Policy: The Elephant in the Room
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...
International Showdown Against Rail Privatization
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...
A Financial Transaction Tax
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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