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Category Archives: ECONOMY
OECD Figures Indicate Economy’s Future Continues To Darken
More reasons to support the movement to OCCUPY! throughout the world: REUTERS (Vicky Buffery) – The outlook for the world’s major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Monday, which showed sharp … Continue reading
The Depression: If Only Things Were That Good
More reasons why OCCUPY WALL STREET! is so critical to the future success of the U.S. and the rest of the world: By David Leonhardt New York Times UNDERNEATH the misery of the Great Depression, the United States economy was quietly … Continue reading
Is This Really “UNEXPECTED?”
We don’t think so. Read our Points To Consider to see why you should expect these numbers to only get worse with the current system/plan. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise To 428,000 As Labor Market Stalls REUTERS WASHINGTON – The number … Continue reading
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Women Help Promote a Just Global Economy
Anasuya Sengupta Wednesday, September 14, 2011 SF GATE In the countryside of war-torn Mindanao in the southern Philippines, a group of indigenous female farmers have opened their own organic produce store. Even as they try to improve their own health … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMY, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBALIZATION, SOLUTIONS, Women's Rights
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SCREENING of LIVING WITHOUT MONEY at ATA
JOIN CIO at ATA for an afternoon of documentary film and dialogue. WHEN: Sunday September 25 at 2pm WHERE: Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 WHAT: “LIVING WITHOUT MONEY” (52 minutes, directed by Line … Continue reading
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Investors Fear Collapse Of Major European Bank
By Landon Thomas Jr. and Nelson D. Schwartz The New York Times Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Europeans certainly do. As Europe struggles to contain its government debt crisis, the greatest fear is that one of the Continent’s major … Continue reading
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U.S. Economy Tumbles Down Down Down … Global Ranking Of Competitive Economies
U.S. in Fifth Place: The World Economic Forum cited the U.S. for “a number of escalating weaknesses” including declining public faith in political leaders and corporate ethics. By John Heilprin HUFFINGTON POST GENEVA — The U.S. has tumbled further down … Continue reading
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Options: Slave Labor
Policy makers are scrambling to do anything to put people to work … including slave labor (under the guise of “job training”). However, rather than addressing the real issues and solutions – the need for rigorous regulation of corporations, closing … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CORPORATE BRUTALITY, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, EVIL CORPORATIONS, FASCISM, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY
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Happy Labor Day! (If you’re a CEO): HOW LABOR IS GETTING SHAFTED BY CORPORATE AMERICA
By Josh Harkinson Mother Jones The red line is the share of the economy taken up by wages, salaries etc. The blue line is the share taken up by corporate profits. So the graph shows that corporations have bounced back … Continue reading
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Cornel West Speaks Up
In the New York Times Cornel West unleashes a searing denunciation of the US and the Obama administration. In summary, a catastrophe! Great to read this in a major newspaper… I fear, however, that we are a long way from the revolution … Continue reading
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How to Party Like a Billionaire Financier With a 15% Tax Rate
A full moon rises over the Hamptons as the crocs come out to play. By Lynn Parramore, August 22, 2011, Re-posted from AlterNet While the world economy trembles and their fellow Americans face blown-up 401Ks, foreclosure threats, and fruitless job … Continue reading
Suicides and Student Loan Debt
CIO!: One Solution to these suicides and to the worsening U.S. economy is for the federal government to Forgive All Student Loan Debt! Rather than continuing to throw (away) money at Wall Street, the U.S. government should help Main Street … Continue reading
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The Rescue That Missed Main Street
Government officials rewarded imprudent institutions with stupefying amounts of free money. Even so, we are still in economically stormy seas. Doesn’t that indicate that it’s time to try a different tack? By Gretchen Morgenson The New York Times FOR the … Continue reading
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Can We Stop the Charade and Just Cut To The Chase: THE U.S. IS HEADED FOR A DEPRESSION
With a nod to Third Voice (for those who remember it) … but without the cool interface CIO! = burgundy (a step up from red) GDP: U.S. Economy Grows Only 1 Percent In Spring, Increasing Recession Fears by Christopher S. … Continue reading
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All Work and No Pay: The dirty secret of the jobless recovery
YOU: doing more with less. CORPORATE PROFITS: up 22 percent. By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery Mother Jones Also read harrowing first-person tales of overwork and 12 charts on just how much is being demanded of American workers. On a … Continue reading
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WORD!
U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading
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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse
By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading
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The Deficit is Not Default of Obama
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama, by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis, Thursday 21 July 2011 Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a … Continue reading
Posted in AUSTERITY, bankruptcy, CAPITALISM, DEMOCRACY, ECONOMY, GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENT, GREED, POLICY, RESOURCES
Tagged austerity, capitalism, corporate capitalism, debt ceiling, Democratic Leadership, Eric Cantor, GOP, Greg Palast, Obama
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Who Suffers Under The Gang of Six Deficit Reduction Scheme: Seniors, Students, Working families
Social Security benefits would be reduced, and there are also cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Students and the disabled would lose some federal government support By George Zornick The Nation President Obama endorsed the Senate’s Gang of Six deficit reduction … Continue reading
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