Business
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US Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food (AP)
Wholesale prices rise 1.6 pct. due to biggest jump in food costs in more than 36 years Mar. 16, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to ...
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Get ready for the meltdown of the US Treasury Bond market | LEAP/E2020
Mar. 17, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°53 (LEAP/E2020) -- Beyond its tragic human consequences (1), the terrible disaster that has just hit Japan weakens the shaky U.S. Treasury Bond market a ...
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Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 15, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan faced potential catastrophe Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, ...
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BOJ Fails to Contain Investor Panic as Nuclear Danger Rises (Keiko Ujikane and Mayumi Otsuma)
Mar. 15, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s step to provide short-term liquidity and expand an asset-purchase program failed to contain investor panic today as the risk of nuclear radiation ...
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Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)
Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) ...
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Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (Chris Hedges)
Mar. 14, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and ...
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We Americans Better Damn Well... Beware (Gregory Crawford)
Mar. 13, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Recent efforts by Republican politicians to eliminate federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have focused on NPR’s supposed “liberal bias.” In ...
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Wis. State Senate Passes Anti-Union Bill, In End-Run Around Dem Boycott (Eric Kleefeld)
Mar. 9, 2011 (TPM) -- Capping a dramatic turn of events, the Wisconsin state Senate on Wednesday night passed a new, stripped-down "budget repair bill" -- which now excludes all the fiscal elements ...
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'Operation Libya' and the Battle for Oil (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
This is Part II of a three-part article Part I: Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? Mar. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- The geopolitical and economic ...
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Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
Part I of a three-part article. Part II. "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil Mar. 7, 2011 (Global Research) -- The United States and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, ...
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From Buccaneers to Profiteers: On the Origin of Corporations (David Korten)
Mar. 8, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- Like many Americans, I grew up believing that conservative values were about local control and personal responsibility for family, community, and nature. It seemed ...
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