Business
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Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter (Catherine Rampell)
Nov. 23, 2010 (New York Times) -- The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 ...
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Bernanke vs. Keynes (Mike Whitney)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Investment drives the economy. It creates jobs, builds factories, develops technology, and stimulates growth. When investment falls, spending slows, ...
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Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 23, 2010 (TruthDig) -- There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by ...
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The First Victory Against The Police State May Come Against The TSA (Saman Mohammadi)
Credit: Oleg Volk Nov. 19, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- There is a growing public resistance campaign across U.S. airports against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for ...
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Economic Data Show U.S. Recovery Accelerating (Courtney Schlisserman and Shobhana Chandra)
Nov. 18, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The index of U.S. leading indicators rose for a fourth consecutive month, manufacturing surged in the Philadelphia area and jobless claims climbed less than forecast, ...
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The Mythical United States of America: Rushing into Backwardness (Prof. John Kozy)
Nov. 14, 2010 (Global Research) -- The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of ...
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Yes, I Can: Straight Talk on Balancing the Budget (Ted Rall)
Nov. 12, 2010 (CommonDreams.org) -- The federal budget deficit is like the weather. Everybody talks about it; except for Bill Clinton, no one ever does anything about it. President Obama's ...
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Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners (Matt Taibbi)
Retired judges are rushing through complex cases to speed foreclosures in Florida Nov. 10, 2010 (Rolling Stone) -- The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. ...
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Slide in Home Prices Signals Trouble Ahead: IAS (Carrie Bay)
Nov. 9, 2010 (DSNews) -- Residential property values fell 0.2 percent at the national level during the third quarter of this year, according to Integrated Asset Services (IAS). In front of ...
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Outrage, Misguided (Noam Chomsky)
Nov. 4, 2010 (New York In These Times) -- The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing I can recall in my lifetime. Since the Democrats ...
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A Recipe for Fascism (Chris Hedges)
Nov. 8, 2010 (Truthdig) -- American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational. On one side stands a corrupt liberal class, bereft of ideas and unable to ...
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