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U.S. Sells 3-Year Notes at Record Low Yield (Daniel Kruger and Susanne Walker)
Sep 12, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury 10-year note yields rose from a record low on speculation China may seek to buy more European bonds, easing the haven appeal for investors in U.S. government ...
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FLATWIRE: Currency Wars, Trade and the Consuming Crisis of Capitalism (Charles Hugh Smith)
To understand why the euro is failing and the Swiss Franc peg is a sand castle that will dissolve in a rising tide, we must start with a historical context and the crisis of global Capitalism Sept. ...
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FLATWIRE: Roubini: Slowdown Brings Forward New Crisis (Scott Hamilton)
Sept. 6, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, said the current slowdown in the world economy has brought forward the timing of a new ...
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Seeing Stars (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2011 -- I don't want to be party pooper, but is it possible that all the 9/11 remembrance hoopla was a kind of weekend refuge from reality for ...
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FLATWIRE: Mexico Fades (Fred Reed)
An Intrusion of Reality -- Never a Good Thing Sept. 5, 2011 (FredOnEverything.net) -- Things change, usually for the worse, and always against the innocent. (This truth is a principle of ...
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FLATWIRE: BOOKS: Economics Unmasked. By Phillip B. Smith and Manfred Max-Neef (Herman Daly)
Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good by Phillip B. Smith and Manfred Max-Neef, Green Books, UK, 2011. Sept. 12, 2011 (The Daly News) -- Manfred Max-Neef is a ...
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FLATWIRE: Eurozone Deathwatch (Mike Whitney)
Sept. 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- There's no way to overstate the calamity that's unfolding across the Atlantic. The eurozone is imploding. The smart money has already fled EU banks for ...
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FLATWIRE: Don't Blame Bush: This is Obama's Depression (Mike Whitney)
Sept. 4, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- This is Barack Obama's economy now. George Bush can no longer be blamed. And if the economy dips back into recession--as it most certainly will--then ...
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FLATWIRE: Labor’s Demise As A Countervailing Power (Paul Craig Roberts)
Sept. 4, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone ...
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FLATWIRE: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions (Robert Scheer)
Aug. 31, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean ...
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FLATWIRE: 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution (Adele M. Stan)
He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start Aug. 27, 2011 (Alternet) -- There are few things as maddening in a maddening ...
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