Global Economy
In April 2010, we hosted a Global Economy News Hunt to find good (and bad) journalism on the economic conditions of people around the world.
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In Greece, fears that austerity is killing the economy - The Washington Post
Unemployment has surged to 18.8 percent from 13.3 percent only a year ago.Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
High & Low Finance: A Central Bank Doing What Central Banks Do
The European Central Bank has loaned $639 billion to 523 banks to keep credit flowing. It turns out that may be ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
Lawmaker warns USTR on labor in Trans-Pacific pact
A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday warned the Obama administration that Congress could reject a proposed ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Despite Praise for Its Austerity, Ireland and Its People Are Being Battered
The Irish example points to the dangers of simply squeezing ordinary people to pay off creditors rather than ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski -
News Analysis: New Warnings of Euro Zone Danger — News Analysis
In Europe there are growing concerns that even an aggressive intervention by the European Central Bank will not be ...Posted by Manfred Ostrowski
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2012: The Year of the Cooperative
What do coffee growers in Ethiopia, hardware store owners in America, and Basque entrepreneurs have in common? For ...Posted by Tanya J. Maurer -
6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America
Capitalism is coming apart at the seams and the middle-class is paying the price.Posted by Dwight Rousu -
300 Chinese Foxconn Workers 'Threaten Mass Suicide' At XBox Plant, Reports Claim
Around 300 Chinese workers who manufacture XBox consoles took to a factory roof and threatened bosses with mass ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
(Audio - streaming) Mike Daisey performs an excerpt that was adapted for radio from his one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness in Global Trade
we're toward the low end of the advanced economies in terms of compensation costs. Second, in dollar terms, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Austerity Debacle
Britain is doing worse this time than it did during the Great Depression. Four years into the Depression, British ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
The economic illiteracy of economists | Mark Weisbrot
The American Economic Association's annual meeting is red-letter day for 'the dismal science'. And dismal it proved ...Posted by khermie ramirez -
Factory data offer glimmer of hope - Financial Times
Factory data offer glimmer of hopeFinancial TimesFranz Fehrenbach, chief executive of Germany's Bosch, the world's ...Posted by ds1communications -
Our leadership is dire, but we mustn't despise government | Jeffrey Sachs
Our leaderships, in thrall to big business, are failing in so many places all at the same time. But we can't give ...Posted by Harry A Farr -
Time of reckoning for the euro zone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failure by European leaders at their summit this week to fix the fatal flaw in the euro ...Posted by Warrior Wheatman
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As Romney Releases Tax Returns, Fmr Senate Investigator Says: We've Got To Start Taxing Corporations
(Multimedia) tax evasion could seriously cripple the already struggling economy. Blum appears in "We’re Not Broke," a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
How, Exactly, Does Trade Bring Prosperity?
I work for a labor union in the aerospace industry. We are 100% in favor of trade. We make products the rest of the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Ex-Greek PM George Papandreou on Greece's Fiscal Crisis and Why He Backs Occupy Movement
(Multimedia) In an exclusive interview, we speak with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who is attending the U.N. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Mohamed A. El-Erian: Prepare for a Different Financial Landscape
With the European crisis continuing to dominate the news, many people now realize that today's global economy faces ...Posted by Robert Reasoner -
Special Investigation: Who’s Behind the “Information Attacks” on Climate Scientists?
by Sue Sturgis, in an Institute for Southern Studies repost This week, in a courtroom in Prince William County, ...Posted by Harry A Farr
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mr. krugman offers a reasonable information as explanation for his conclusions about how damaging austerity is in a recession. he also points out that there are "caveats and complications" to this thesis.and he praises the president for not embracing austerity while state governments are.
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