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Read 'Bad Money' and Weepnew
After reading the new book by Kevin Phillips, a painful realization dawns: Not one of the people running for president is addressing how interconnected and serious America's economic, ecological, and security problems are. Worse, the bankers and hedge-fund speculators who created the credit crisis are financing the campaigns of Democrats -- the only politicians likely ever to rein them in.
Artvoice |
Bruce Fisher |
05-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
Winemakers Deal with the Rising Cost of Barrelsnew
To get the kind of taste that sells, you need oak. But brand new French oak barrels, the ne plus ultra of wine containers, are very expensive, and with the dollar falling steadily against the Euro, they've only gotten more so.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
05-14-2008 |
Food+Drink
Helping People Out of the Subprime Crisis, Without Foreclosurenew
Three years ago, Lisa Peterson and her husband got into trouble with their own home payments after a publishing venture failed. They had to turn to family for help. The experience gave them an idea for a new business: help people protect their credit and avoid foreclosure, either by renegotiating their loans or buying and reselling their houses.
Isthmus |
Mary Ellen Bell |
05-12-2008 |
Housing & Development
'No Pay' Into 'Co-Pay'new
High fuel prices, housing and credit crisis and the economic recession have affected the way folk spend their dollars.
Jackson Free Press |
Sue Doh Nem |
05-07-2008 |
Commentary
Rural People Once Watched the Weather; Now They Track the Price of Oilnew
Rural America's deep disaffection is in some ways more terrible than the pain of the inner city -- because urbanites never harbored any illusions about the Republicans' deceptive rhetoric.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Bruce Schimmel |
04-29-2008 |
Economy
Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisisnew
Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition.
Houston Press |
Paul Knight |
04-29-2008 |
Business & Labor
How Class Caricatures Could Blow it for the Democratsnew
Democrats have a problem explaining progressive economic policies when they've been successfully caricatured as cultural elitists and snobs who sneer at the tastes, faith, gender roles, and economic aspirations of working people. Thus the unfortunate vulnerability of Barack Obama.
Artvoice |
Bruce Fisher |
04-18-2008 |
Commentary
Party Like It's 1929
The "structural recession" was declared in 1992. It's here now.
Bubble Trouble
The mortgage crisis is bringing America's faith-based economy closer to judgment day.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
08-10-2007 |
Economy
Dionysus Downnew
Barbara Ehrenreich's equivocal history of joy.
Missoula Independent |
Joe Campana |
04-26-2007 |
Nonfiction
Massive Development Underway in China
China is the most populous, fastest growing economy in world history. After visiting the country, the publisher of Artvoice considers ways to create stronger economic and cultural ties between China and Buffalo, N.Y.
Artvoice |
Jamie Moses |
10-14-2005 |
International
Out of Energy?
Fuel alternatives abound, but the federal government isn't about to fund them.
Busted in Boomtownnew
Once a desperately poor region populated by hardscrabble mountain-dwellers, Northwest Arkansas is now one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, fueled by a hub of home-grown Fortune 500 companies.
Arkansas Times |
Warwick Sabin |
08-04-2005 |
Economy
Grapes Entice Tourists to Upstate New Yorknew
Wineries are the fastest growing industry in New York State's Finger Lakes region, and winery-related tourism has grown 800 percent in the past 15 years. Second of two parts
City Newspaper |
Rich Gardner |
01-06-2005 |
Travel
The American Nightmare: Will We Be Eclipsed by the European Union?new
Jeremy Rifkin elaborates on his assertion that the European Union, and not the United States, is the humanist dream factory of tomorrow.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
09-17-2004 |
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