Economy
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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Had Mental Illness in 2009 (Reuters)
Nov. 19, 2010 CHICAGO (Reuters) -- More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government ...
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The First Victory Against The Police State May Come Against The TSA (Saman Mohammadi)
Credit: Oleg Volk Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- There is a growing public resistance campaign across U.S. airports against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for ...
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China Has Tied Bernanke's Hands: The Least We Can Do Is Be Grateful (Mike Whitney)
Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Say what you will about Alan Greenspan, he was never a whiner. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about present Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. Bernanke's ...
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Prime U.S. Mortgage Foreclosures Rise to Record (Kathleen M. Howley)
Nov. 18, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Foreclosures on prime fixed-rate mortgages in the U.S. jumped to a record in the third quarter as unemployment strained household budgets of the most creditworthy ...
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Economic Data Show U.S. Recovery Accelerating (Courtney Schlisserman and Shobhana Chandra)
Nov. 18, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The index of U.S. leading indicators rose for a fourth consecutive month, manufacturing surged in the Philadelphia area and jobless claims climbed less than forecast, ...
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Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)
Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...
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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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It’s Official: Rich Declare War on the Middle Class (Robert Freeman)
Nov. 14 (Common Dreams) -- For the past thirty years the rich have been waging war on the middle class. It’s been astonishingly effective, partly because it has been undeclared. But even that ...
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Bank of America Is in Deep Trouble There May Be Financial Disaster on the Horizon (Joshua Holland)
Nov. 12, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Will Bank of America be the first Wall Street giant to once again point a gun to its own head, telling us it'll crash and burn and take down the financial system if we ...
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The End Of Growth (Richard Heinberg)
Nov. 12, 2010 (RichardHeinberg.com) -- This is the second Museletter containing an excerpt from my upcoming book which has the working title "The End of Growth." The book is set for publication in ...
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Yes, I Can: Straight Talk on Balancing the Budget (Ted Rall)
Nov. 12, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- The federal budget deficit is like the weather. Everybody talks about it; except for Bill Clinton, no one ever does anything about it. President Obama's ...
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