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• Obama to business: We need jobs

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  President brings together business leaders and policymakers seeking solutions to rising unemployment. Says government cant do it alone.
  1 week ago

• Why Main Street isnt hiring

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  With unemployment at its highest rate in a generation, Washingtons policymakers are zooming in this week on a thorny part of the problem: Starved for credit and sales, small companies arent hiring.
  1 week ago

• UK: Posen calls for bubble tax on homes [national property tax?]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Homeowners must be charged penalty taxes on their properties if the UK is to avoid a future housing crash, according to one of the Bank of Englands policymakers. Adam Posen, a member of the Banks Monetary Policy Committee, said that the Government should consider slapping extra taxes on British properties, suggesting ...
  1 week ago

• Love of the Land: Why Dont Western Elites and Governments Comprehend International Realities?

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 165
  Why Dont Western Elites and Governments Comprehend International Realities? Barry Rubin The Rubin Report 30 November 09 The question readers most often ask me is an extremely basic, vitally important one. So how can we explain the worlds second biggest problem today. The first is the flourishing of ...
  1 week ago

• Phil Jones hiding the decline

  
  Moonage Spacedream — Authority: 411
  What are we supposed to make of this info?From: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>To: ray bradley <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>,mann@virginia.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.eduSubject: Diagram... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To “Prepare For Civil War”

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  By: Sorcha Faal  Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops To “Prepare For Civil War”

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  By: Sorcha FaalRussian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, ...
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• Federal Housing Administration Encourages More Bad Mortgage Loans

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 559
  Yesterday was a typical day on Wall Street. The Dow fell a little. Oil slipped a little. The dollar held steady at $1.49 per euro, about where it has been for months. And the price of gold went up. No matter what else happens, gold seems to go up. Watch out, though. This gold market is ready for a correction. As we ...
  2 weeks ago

• What’s better than gold? Anything!

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 521
  Baltimore — ( TFN ): One good thing about kids is they are predictable. Give them five bucks and say they’ve got just one hour to spend it or it goes into their savings account and can bet another five bucks the cash will be spent by minute 59. It’s the same way for politicians. Give them some cash and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opinions: Fighting TB; Currency Transaction Tax

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  Innovation, Coordination Needed To ‘Bring TB Research Into The 21st Century’ Though tuberculosis “is one of the world’s leading killers … few citizens, scientists and policymakers are demanding more attention to TB research, treatment and prevention. … It’s time to bring TB research ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will America Keep “Bending the Productivity Curve”?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Most international comparisons conclude that America’s health care sector under-performs those of other advanced nations.  Aside from other serious flaws , those studies typically ignore each nation’s contribution to medical innovation — the discovery of new knowledge and practices that improve health in all ...
  3 weeks ago

• China Will Rule the Business World While America Finds Itself Heavily in Debt

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 559
  The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it or not, this transition is already underway and it will intensify over the coming decades. Throughout history, no empire has managed to rule forever. Instead, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bank Lending Standards

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 429
  Almost everyone I know has been turned down for a loan over the past year.This Federal Reserve study which says most banks are not tightening lending standards seems counter-intuitive to me. (...)
  4 weeks ago

• Federal Reserve Plans To Keep Interest Rates Low For Months

  
  Refinance Home Mortgages — Authority: 429
  Theyre doing everything they can to stimulate the economy.We had modest GDP growth last quarter. Home sales are down, however. The federal deficit is booming. The dollar is dropping. (...)
  4 weeks ago

• Another Record Debt Sale = Record borrowing for the U.S.

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 521
  Ian Mathias (The Daily Reckoning ): The U.S. government will finish its historic streak of debt sales today with a record $16 billion offering of 30-year bonds. This will pile on top the $65 billion in 3-year and 10-year paper auctioned earlier this week, both records in their own right. It’s worth noting that ...
  4 weeks ago

• US banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  An influential US Senate committee has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s regulatory architecture that would strip powers from the Federal Reserve and create a single banking regulator.Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, on Tuesday presented a more radical vision of regulatory reform ...
  4 weeks ago

• US banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 133
  An influential US Senate committee has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s regulatory architecture that would strip powers from the Federal Reserve and create a single banking regulator. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, on Tuesday presented a more radical vision of regulatory reform ...
  4 weeks ago

• Climate Policy Imperils China, India

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 553
  Jonathan Pershing, head of the U.S. delegation at the UN climate talks in Barcelona, says China should cut its CO2 emissions 50% by 2050. Reuters reports: BARCELONA, Spain, Nov 5 (Reuters) - China should roughly halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to keep the world on a safe climate path, the head of the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Past the Eye of the Recession Storm: is this the ‘new normal?’

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 579
  The eye of the recession storm is said to have passed. The world is now slowly recovering from the greatest economic bust since the Depression. The US says it has edged out of the economic meltdown, Australia is said to have survived the recession easiest and earliest. Anyone who comes from a typhoon-riddled country ...
  5 weeks ago

• GEOGRAPHIC AWARENESS NEEDED -- BY DAVID KEELING, The Washington Times

  
  COURAGE IN AMERICA — Authority: 167
  The only route to good decisions based on reason Examples of the lack of geographic awareness displayed by politicians, business leaders, and even beauty queens, are legion. Who can forget presidential candidate John McCains 2008 gaffe on "Good Morning America" when he referred to the Iraq-Pakistan border (he meant ...
  6 weeks ago

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