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The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis
http://www.time.com/time/w orld/article/0,8599,171757 2,00.html Informant: Teresa Binstock -------- Food and the Specter of Malthus Mark Thirlwell of The Financial Times writes: "Last week, financial... ...
Manufacturing data fuel US recession fears
US manufacturing orders on Wednesday recorded their biggest decline in five months and new home sales slumped to a 13-year low, compounding fears that the US economy may be sliding into recession. http://www.ft. com/cms/s/0/bfe88122-e540- 11dc-9334-0000779fd2ac.htm l... ...
New Data Show Rising Inflation and Slumping Home Values
Vikas Bajaj for The New York Times, "Two worrisome trends for the economy - falling house prices and the rising cost of everything else - picked up speed in data reported on Tuesday, putting policy makers... ...
Economic “stimulus” policies trapped in the past
Competitive Enterprise Institute by staff 02/21/08 The economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress and signed by President Bush will do little to improve economic performance in the United... ...
The debt delusion
The US economy relies upon asset price inflation and rising indebtedness to fuel growth - and this contradiction has global implications. http://comm entisfree.guardian.co.uk/t homas_palley/2008/02/the_d ebt_delusion.html From.. . ...
Credit crisis: Precursor of great inflation
Ludwig von Mises Institute by Thorsten Polleit 02/07/08 The so-called ‘credit crisis’ is gaining momentum. Investors increasingly question the solidity of the banking system, as evidenced by banks’ tumbling... ...
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget
Thom Shanker, of The New York Times, writes: "As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for counterterrorism... ...
America's Middle Classes Are No Longer Coping
By Robert Reich The fact is, middle-class families have exhausted the coping mechanisms they have used for more than three decades to get by on median wages that are barely higher than they were in 1970,... ...
New Inflation Data Explain Middle-Class Squeeze
Kevin G. Hall reports for McClatchy Newspapers: "New data from the Labor Department confirm what most middle-class Americans already know: Inflation is squeezing them. As consumer prices rose by 4.1 percent... ...
Dollar Nears Record Low Against Euro
The dollar dropped on speculation that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates this month, sending gold and platinum futures to records. http://tinyurl.c om/3xp59p ECB warns crashing dollar... ...