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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 10, 2010

  Why didn't anyone see this economic crisis coming?

By Youri Kemp: I had tuned in to one of the local talk shows in The Bahamas, and the host was on about the economic crisis and why hadn't anyone seen it coming -- particularly the economists and business persons. It wasn't the main focus of the show that day -- from what I heard -- but it...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2009

  Cubans fear hard times ahead, impatient for change

By Marc Frank: HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis -- and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform. Hurricanes, the global recession, US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 9, 2009

  Rahm Emanuel

Reflections of Fidel: WHAT a strange surname! It appears Spanish, easy to pronounce, but it’s not. Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands. Where does it come from? I wondered. Over and over, the name came to mind of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 2, 2009

  Caribbean remittances holding up

WASHINGTON, USA: REMITTANCES may be one of the few bright spots in the economic scheme of things in Barbados and other Caribbean countries as the region confronts a slowdown in tourism, a fall-off in foreign direct investment and a drop in commodity prices. That assessment came from...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 24, 2009

  America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy

By David Sirota, SFGate.com: History's great American parables teach that if anything unified our founders, it was a deep antipathy to dictatorship. As bourgeois revolutionaries from Boston to Philadelphia courageously split with the British crown in 1776, they created three equal branches...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 31, 2008

  Economic illiteracy

Reflections of Fidel: IN Zulia, Chavez made reference to “comrade Sarkozy,” and did so with a certain irony but he meant no offense. On the contrary, he was rather recognizing the sincerity of the president when he spoke in Beijing in his capacity as chairman of the European Community....... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 20, 2008

  The end of American greed?

By CHARLES R. LARSON: If you’ve been attempting to make sense of the American presidential campaign, you are not alone. Weird, unbelievable, out of control -- these are terms that clearly apply to the nastiest election the country has ever encountered. Let me assure you, however,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  From crisis to panic

By ASIM ERDİLEK: It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  Bailout Blues

By Joseph E. Stiglitz: It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess. And now, with the US House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout plan, it is also...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008

  US debates bailout as crisis worsens

BY: ASIM ERDİLEK: The US Treasury’s sweeping bailout plan hastily presented to the US Congress last Monday to end the global financial crisis has unleashed a furious debate, stalling congressional approval of the plan. This welcome debate, after Congress commendably refused to...... [view]

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