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G8 warns of hunger threat to stability
The world faces a permanent food crisis and global instability unless countries act now to feed a surging population by doubling agricultural output, a report drafted for ministers of the Group of Eight... ...
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to have the government lend up to a trillion dollars to hedge funds, private equity, funds and the banks themselves to clear their books... ...
The Dollar is Gonna Drop Like a Stone
Beyond the dollar People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan said last week that the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should replace the dollar as the world's... ...
One in Ten Americans Receive Food Stamps
reuters.com — A record 32.2 million people — one in every 10 Americans — received food stamps at the latest count, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month. Food stamps, the major U.S. anti-hunger... ...
Obama follows in Hoover’s footsteps
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader 04/01/09 During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover damaged the economy, and impoverished the American people, with costly, artificial attempts to stimulate the economy... ...
More Senior Citizens Forced to Declare Bankruptcy
Ana Veciana-Suarez, The Miami Herald: "Hit hard by the slumping economy and surviving on fixed incomes, senior citizens have experienced the sharpest increase in bankruptcy filings. In 2007, Americans... ...
The Obama slide
Classically Liberal by CLS 03/29/09 Obama’s popularity is plunging. President Obama is proving himself to be relatively incompetent. And, after eight years of George Bush, the bar for competency was... ...
Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
By Reuters The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning... ...
A.I.G. Bonuses: Class War in the Media
Dean Baker, Truthout: "The debate over the A.I.G. bonuses is class war in its full naked glory. On the surface, everyone agreed that paying multi-million bonuses to the folks who bankrupted their company... ...
Obama Told Us To Speak Out, But Is He Listening?
PAUL KRUGMAN Financial Policy Despair nytimes.com — Mr. Obama has apparently settled on a financial plan that, in essence, assumes that banks are fundamentally sound and that bankers know what they're... ...