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Unemployment — not a lagging indicator of economy
April 11, 2009It is conventional wisdom pontificated ad nauseam on business channels like CNBC and Bloomberg that employment figures are “lagging indicators” of the state of a country’s economy. Their argument is that as recessions begin businesses start...
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Editorial: Seeking a nuke-free world
April 11, 2009President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague April 5 that the U.S., the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons, has a “moral responsibility” to lead the way in seeking “the peace and...
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Editorial: In defense of equality
April 11, 2009All people who cherish liberty, justice and equality have something to celebrate after Iowa’s Supreme Court and Vermont’s Legislature added those states to the short list of places in America where gay marriage is recognized as...
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LETTERS Banks, pensions, G20, drugs, and more
April 11, 2009Banks What to do with the banks? Turn them into credit unions!! Jo Forman Via e-mail Pension theft A recent article from Raw Story on how our pension money was shifted into stocks just before the...
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Advice for G20 and ourselves, via Facebook
April 9, 2009Last week’s G20 meeting — of leaders of the world’s big and developing economies — sparked a Facebook conversation between Toby Chaudhuri of the Campaign for America’s Future and Vijay Prashad, who teaches international studies at...
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