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Commodities Drop as Emerging-Market Stocks Fall on Dubai Debt (Mark Gilbert and Paul Sillitoe)
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Commodities dropped the most since July, emerging-market stocks fell, Treasuries and the dollar rose and credit default swaps surged as Dubai’s attempt to delay debt ...
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German politicians, media warn about the next global financial crisis (Peter Schwarz)
Nov. 26, 2009 (World Socialist Web Site) -- Within Germany’s top political circles fear is growing of a second international financial crash exceeding in intensity and impact that of autumn 2008. At ...
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Antarctica Loses Ice From East as Well as West, Scientists Say (Alex Morales)
A file photo shows giant tabular icebergs surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay, Antartica, on Jan. 11, 2008. Photographer: Torsten Blackwood/Pool/Getty Images Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- ...
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Hoodwinked (John Perkins)
John Perkins Economic Meltdown -- A Call for Systemic Change Nov. 21, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- Whenever I hold my two-yea- old grandson, Grant, in my arms I wonder what this world will ...
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Courting Convulsion (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 23, 2009 -- How infantile is American society? Last night's CBS "Business Update" (in the midst of its "60 Minutes" program) featured three items: 1.) ...
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'Promises. Promises' (Hal Cohen)
Hal Cohen Hal Cohen -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2009 -- Here we are. One year after the historic election of President Barack Obama. Some supporters are celebrating his accomplishments. Some are ...
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The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job losses (Noriel Rubini)
Nov. 15, 2009 (Daily News) -- Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2 percent and another ...
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Christmas Is Coming -- The Executives Are Getting Fat (Michael Greenwell)
Michael Greenwell -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2009 -- Yes it is that time of year again. I have started to see Christmas decorations and whatnot around the place. Instead of just going through the ...
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Globalization Unchecked: How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 18, 2009 -- A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying ...
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More Militant Vegans, Less Ethical Butchers (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 11, 2009 -- A friend of mine recently brought to my attention a former vegan who has now re-invented himself as the "Ethical Butcher" (a title right up there with ...
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House Panel Votes to Advance Paul Plan on Fed Audits (Scott Lanman)
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. House committee advanced a proposal to remove a three-decade ban on congressional audits of Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions, a measure backed by a lawmaker who ...
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