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Dollar Heads for Biggest Weekly Drop Against Euro in a Month
"There are further declines ahead for the dollar,'' said Antje Praefcke, a Frankfurt-based currency strategist at Commerzbank AG, Germany's second-largest lender. http://tinyurl.co m/2a9uvd World... ...
An Election Without Meaning
By Peter Phillips Will November 2008 bring a meaningful change to America? Will getting rid of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney without impeachment or indictment really make a difference? Will a 600... ...
The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper
The Wages of Peace Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier write for The Nation: "The economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper than the squandered opportunities for vital public investments. Spending... ...
Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot
The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. http://www.reute rs.com/article/idUSL149197 1920080314 U.S. faces... ...
FEC Warns McCain on Campaign Spending
Matthew Mosk and Glenn Kessler report for The Washington Post, "The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public... ...
Pentagon won't detail war spending plan
When the Pentagon unveils its budget request Monday for the next fiscal year, it will back away from a commitment it made to Congress just a year ago -- to estimate how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... ...
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... ...
War Spending Dwarfs Climate Change Measures
http://www.commondreams.or g/archive/2008/02/01/6784/ -------- Wars Dwarf Warming in US Budget Jim Lobe for the Inter Press Service reports, "Despite growing recognition in the Pentagon and the intelligence... ...
The Candidates Discover the Economy
The editors of The New York Times write, "The presidential candidates are only beginning to recognize what many voters have already figured out through painful, personal experience: the economy is in trouble... ...
What's Next for FISA?
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium, writes: "The first year of the 110th Congress closed with a great deal of spilled blood, and few victories for liberals. In just the last weeks of the past session,... ...