Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
``post-Tiananmen Square, new Chinese leadership shifted its approach to economic development to one that had more state direction than before''; Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
Sun 2008-08-10 00:00 EDT
Popular Mechanics: Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure, by Erik Sofge
Minnesota bridge collapse; Popular Mechanics; Rebuilding America; United States Infrastructure Investigation.
Thu 2008-07-24 00:00 EDT
"We interrupt regular programming to announce that the United States of America has defaulted " Part 2, by Satyajit Das
America; announced; default; interrupt regular programming; Part 2; United States.
Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs; dollar losing reserve status
dollars pegged; Internal Report Urges Gulf States; Jesse's Café Américain; rethink.
Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT
by Chris Hedges; "The popular media are courtiers...They are the smiley faces of a corporate state that has hijacked the government and is raping the nation."
5; AlterNet; makes; Real Journalists; years.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
review of Jamie Galbraith's "The Predator State" by L. Randall Wray; "market solutions are designed to enrich a favored oligarchy through a spoils system administered through the states structure"
Conservatives Abandoned; Economist's View; free market; liberalism; Predator state.
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
State of Vermont: House resolution calling for the orderly withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq
Sun 2008-03-23 00:00 EDT
"Many of the stated economic gains have been a false ghost. Whether it was overstated job creation (NFP), understated inflation (CPI) or "inflated" growth (GDP), a shocking amount of the debate about the economic expansion has been primarily spin."
Big Picture; good times; investment; K; Mirage; Post-Fact Society.
Sat 2008-03-22 00:00 EDT
Mississippi Turning, by Meteor Blades (DailyKos); fighting Jim Crow; Freedom Summer recollections
Thu 2008-02-14 00:00 EST
Tue 2008-01-22 00:00 EST
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; "When Britain and France used the Long Depression to expand their empires, both Germany and the USA used this time frame to build rail roads, ports, navies, farms, factories and educational centers. As France and England denuded their home states to increase invasive military power that took in the raw resources of the world, their people got weaker and their incomes fell and they went hungry and in rags in slums or fled their homelands to the New Worlds."
Lone Ranger's Silver Bullet Rate Cuts Saves Markets; money matters.
Tue 2007-10-02 00:00 EDT
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Bogeymen of Financial Capitalism, by Nouriel Roubini (The Korea Times); Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF); vast pool of state-controlled funds emerging
