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Worst collapse in UK manufacturing in four decades
The "horrendous" scale of Britain's industrial recession has been laid bare by figures showing that manufacturing output is declining at the fastest rate since records began more than 40 years ago. http://snipurl.com/d ltzf... ...
Fashioning resistance to militarism
Foreign Policy in Focus by Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk 03/10/09 In the silver lining to the devastating economic crisis, critiques of excessive military spending are now beginning to echo around Capitol... ...
Financial Reports Show Five Biggest Banks Face Huge Loss Risk
Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "America's five largest banks, which already have received $145 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, still face potentially catastrophic losses from... ...
Obama’s weak snort at pork
Christian Science Monitor by staff 03/09/09 Earmarks buried in a $410 billion spending bill now before Congress aren’t all ‘pork’ — spending of dubious value. And they total less than 2 percent of the... ...
Who Got AIG's Bailout Billions?
Tondai Reinhold, Reuters: "Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now that a partial list of beneficiaries... ...
The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent
There is a grave risk of a global L-shaped depression. By Nouriel Roubini Even with the $2 trillion of government support, most of these financial institutions are insolvent, as delinquency and charge-off... ...
Trickle Down Misery
Analysis by Abid Aslam Soaring food and fuel prices pushed 130 million to 155 million people in developing countries into poverty in 2008 and the World Bank reckons another 53 million people could join... ...
The audacity of reform
In These Times by Joel Bleifuss 03/04/09 For some pundits, President Barack Obama’s spectacular fundraising success during the 2008 general election has removed campaign finance reform from the top of... ...
Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout
David Evans, Bloomberg: "The Chicago Transit Authority retirement plan had a $1.5 billion hole in its stash of assets in 2007. At the height of a four-year bull market, it didn't have enough cash on hand... ...
When Securitization Blew Up, So Did the Economy
By Mike Whitney One thing is certain, this isn't a normal recession. In a normal recession aggregate demand declines, economic activity slows, and GDP shrinks. While those things are taking place now,... ...