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American Refugees are flooding into Canada: Tens of thousands of Americans are now economic refugees - In September of 2007, the city of Windsor, which borders the United States, officially asked for financial assistance from Ottawa to deal with American refugees flooding into Canada. (11633 views)
Study Reveals Economic Pain as Millions of American Workers Struggle to Make Ends Meet - One in five don't earn enough to make ends meet and six years of Bushenomics has inflicted new hardships. (11056 views)
Analyst: Mystery Trades Were Profit Scam For Fearmongers - So-called Bin Laden trades used to chill confidence in market before rate cut. (10466 views)
Credit crunch gallery of guilt - The causes of the present credit crisis are many and varied. From the Fed's policy of cheap money to the bonus-driven fee structure of the City and Wall Street, there are plenty of culprits in the debt market meltdown. (10413 views)
$4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks... - $4.5 billion options bet on catastrophe within four weeks Anybody have a clue as to what these "investors" are expecting? (13038 views)
Economist says World is one "Bear-like" event away from liquidity freeze - With a "high level of angst" in the financial markets about who will take the losses from more than $1 trillion in risky mortgages, we could be just one hedge-fund collapse away from a global liquidity crisis. (10637 views)
A revolutionary report on the future of oil - In the debate over oil supplies, July 2007 may be seen as a turning point. The International Energy Agency, a body set up to advise OECD nations on energy supply and security, broke with its previous optimistic projections of world oil supply and threw the future of oil into doubt. Despite four years of high oil prices, this report sees increasing market tightness beyond 2010, with OPEC spare capacity declining to minimal levels by 2012... (10944 views)
Dominican Republic hit by general strike - A 24-hour general strike in the Dominican Republic July 9 partially halted public transportation and commerce in a protest against the neoliberal policies of President Leonel Fernández and his administration. The "First General Strike for the Right to Live" was organized by the Alternative Social Forum (FSA), which is comprised of 200 grassroots, leftist and trade union organizations. (4138 views)
America’s first nationwide strike - The story of the Great Railroad Strike on its 130th anniversary. "We eat our hard bread and tainted meat two days old on the sooty cars up the road, and when we come home, find our children gnawing bones, and our wives complaining that they cannot even buy hominy and molasses for food." This Railroad worker’s words give a glimpse of the conditions that prepared the ground for the first nationwide strike in U.S.--the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. (4837 views)
Top Ten Ways We Got Jacked by Conservatives - If you ever wanted to see how badly "conservatives" have been shaking the silver out of our pockets in the past six years, this list is it. (5653 views)
10 Reasons Cars Suck - Baby, You Can Ride My Bike (4939 views)
Ending the Dollar's Tyranny - The dominance of the greenback has created a global empire which is controlled by a small group of corporatists and autocrats who depend on bullying and brute force to maintain their supremacy. (4505 views)
Needed: Workplace Democracy - Ultimately, it‘s all about power. (4240 views)
Loving Labor’s Losses - Whoredom is optional (4268 views)
Rigging the Market; the secret maneuverings of the Plunge Protection Team - ...it is proof-positive that "free markets" are merely a public relations myth with no basis in reality. (4555 views)
Every 2 Seconds A Child Dies of Starvation, But Who Cares, Let's All Obsess Over 911! - Many of these deaths due to starvation are due to corporate terrorism. (6909 views)
Day of Reckoning - America’s Economic Meltdown (4466 views)
The Undeclared War on America's Middle Class - Under the guise of free market capitalism, conservative policies have made 80-hour work weeks the norm. Working harder for less money means middle class families are getting screwed. (7182 views)
What would you do for money? - Who conducted this survey? And what do they want us to believe? (4583 views)
Economic Empire Building and Domestic Decay - Economic Imperialism: Victims Finance their own Exploitation (3780 views)
Who's the Real Welfare Queen - The next time anyone mentions welfare queens be sure to mention Citibank. (3584 views)
Workingman's Blues - Have a nice Labor Day. Try to forget it's a sick joke. (3812 views)
Moneylenders take the military to the cleaners - Not only do they finance wars by fronting capital needed to build bombs and other assorted weapons of mass destruction, they lend money to every cash-strapped Pvt. Tom, Dick, and Harry in the military, charging exorbitant amounts of interest as they go. (3934 views)
The Fiction of Government Debt - We have had three Presidents who supported the right of the government to issue Treasury Notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes. Unfortunately for us, all three were killed by "lone assassins." (3900 views)
'Ownership society' leaves most behind - The "ownership society" looks like this: The owners are doing quite well, thank you. (3797 views)
The Merchant of Menace - How 'merchant coal' is changing the face of America. (3689 views)
Pop goes the bubble! The Great Housing Crash of '07 - The blame for this rapidly-approaching meltdown lies entirely with the Federal Reserve, the privately-owned collection of 10 central banks who cooked up a way to shift wealth from one class to another through low interest rates. (5010 views)
Data show one in eight Americans in poverty - In the world's biggest economy, one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in poverty last year... (7040 views)
It's class warfare in the U.S - ....and guess who's winning (4031 views)
Labor Department Undercounts Poor, Uninsured, and the Non-Employed - Study concludes measurement problems getting worse over time. (4156 views)
'US recession will be nasty and deep' - "This is the tipping point for the U.S. consumer and the effects will be ugly," (3972 views)
A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody - Ruthless Exploiters, Inc. (3976 views)
Top Ten Ways to Evolve - ...from an Economic to an Ecological (read sustainable) Culture (3873 views)
BRITISH PETROLEUM’S "SMART PIG" - The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown (4061 views)
Crisis Overload: Peak Oil, Peak Grain and Peak Water - Imagine a world when peak oil meets peak grain and peak water at a confluence called peak mayhem? (4886 views)
Debt Education - Bad for the Young, Bad for America (4377 views)
Blood in Beirut: $75.05 a Barrel - Profits soar for Exxon. BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips (4077 views)
Burning Energy to Produce It - Everything about the Alberta oil sands development is impossibly big. Producing oil from oil sands also uses impossibly large amounts of energy. (3711 views)
The High Cost of Being Poor - From food prices to auto insurance, when did poverty get so expensive? (13333 views)
Gated Communities Are Enemies of Democracy - The Great Divide: Gated Communities And Street Children (4450 views)
The GOP Fights to Keep Women in Poverty - New welfare rules created by the Bush administration are doomed to fail by forcing women to take the first dead-end job that comes their way. (3774 views)
Tax cuts a boon to upscale loafers - Is the economic glass half-full or half-empty? Or is the glass broken? (3478 views)
Housing bubble threatening to burst - Fed fights inflation by increasing unemployment and lowering wages (3721 views)
The Politics of American Greed - ...this is Bush country, where a rising tide lifts all yachts (3565 views)
End Of Cheap Oil, The Global Energy Crisis And Climate Change - Oil is a non-renewable resource. We have always known that yet the world has been behaving as if oil is in endless supply (3635 views)
A New Assault on Workers' Rights - A ruling by Bush's NLRB could weaken labor protections for hundreds of thousands of workers (3782 views)
Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse? - Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly (4066 views)
Employers cut retiree healthcare, stick gov't w/ bill - Many Americans don't realize that when employers collect "subsidies" in order to provide health "benefits" to their employees, in effect, employees are paying for those so-called benefits themselves. (3462 views)
The Bourgeois Congress and Economic Violence - The richest 1% of Americans own 40% of the nation’s household wealth (3918 views)
The philanthropy of Warren Buffett - That one solitary human being has nearly forty billion dollars to dispose of, with a good deal left over, is appalling in itself, at a time when 1.1 billion people, one-fifth of the world’s population, live on less than $1 a day and some 3 billion on less than $2. (4592 views)
Peak Oil = Urban Ruin - Our economy depends so much on fossil fuel that a lack of oil without any alternative fuel sources would lead to total chaos. (3982 views)
Bush Should Get the Looters Out of Medicare - Private Insurers are looting the Medicare system (3855 views)
Inequality in America: The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them - The rich are the big gainers in America's new prosperity (8890 views)
The middle of what? - America's political class looks more like royalty by another means than the product of a dynamic democratic system. (4325 views)
CEOs earn 262 times pay of average worker - In fact, a CEO earned more in one workday than an average worker earned in 52 weeks... (3527 views)
Minimum Wage: Lowest in 50 Years - Paying working folks a livable wage helps everyone, but it's been nine years -- and nine Congressional pay raises -- since the minimum wage was last increased. (4698 views)
CNAC's Elite Agenda for the Border - Security, Temp Workers, and Oil (3733 views)
Refugees of capital - Our problem is not poor people crossing our borders seeking work, but rich capital crossing their borders seeking profit. If we stop international finance's invasive penetration of other nation's borders, we won't have to worry about refugees illegally crossing ours. (3667 views)
Capitalism Requires a Great Depression - Getting Ready for World War III. (3949 views)
Why the Dollar Bubble is about to Burst - If there is a tactical-nuclear strike on - deja-vu - "weapons of mass destruction" in Iran, who would bet against a certain Oil Exchange and more, being bombed too? (5019 views)
Forgotten Urban Poor a Living Time Bomb: UN - "When a critical mass of people are in one place, if you don't empower them they will empower themselves through revolution,..." (3835 views)
What's wrong with the economy? - 1. Profits are up, but the wages and incomes of average Americans are down. (3599 views)
UAW Chief leads rank and file to slaughter - Instead of conveying a determination to put a stop to the slaughter of working class Americans in the auto industry, the President of the UAW resigned himself and the over 600,000 workers he represents to a position of economic servitude and corporate boot-licking. (3534 views)
Vampires of The New World Order - Death by Paper Fiat (4099 views)
Golden Goose Down - Was the IMF Involved in Gold Price Manipulation? (3385 views)
Hanky Panky at the Counting House - Among Wall Street’s capos, that makes Paulson capo di tutti capital markets and the speculator-in-chief of our speculation driven economy, the main manipulator in a manipulated market. (3725 views)
Bankruptcy Law in Shambles - What happens when the credit card industry writes congressional legislation? According to the judges who have to enforce it, anarchy. (3838 views)
Repealing the Paris Hilton Tax: So Not Hot - Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking Rich! (4224 views)
The Swansong for the Greenback - The great dollar sell-off has begun in earnest, although to a large extent, it's being concealed from the public. (4294 views)
The corporations that prey on the undocumented - Guest-worker legislation legitimizes the idea that some jobs are too dirty or dangerous for Americans, so Corporate America is justified filling them any way they can. We need a labor movement that says no worker is disposable--and fights for justice, dignity and safety for all. (3960 views)
New Report Reveals Estate Tax Repeal Would Give Over $200 Million Windfall to Oil Company Executives - The family of one oil executive, Lee Raymond (the former ExxonMobil CEO), alone could receive a tax break worth over $160 million. (3806 views)
In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher "Jungle" Breeds Fear, Injury, Short Pay - 'I'm not sure these devout Jews are using Jewish ethics to treat their workers' (3858 views)
Enron's Schemes - "The Very Nature of Profit-Based, Market Capitalism" (3847 views)
Laid Off and Left Out - ...the workplace has become a hub of anxiety and fear, an essential but capricious environment in which you might be shown the door at any moment. (3638 views)
The Suburban Fantasy - There is now powerful evidence in the production figures worldwide that we have reached global peak oil production. The collective nations of the earth will not make up for this by importing oil from other planets. (3333 views)
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