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NY Times, February 23, 2001
The U.S. Trade Deficit Now Matters
By FLOYD NORRIS
Only a year ago, as the United States trade deficit set a record, there
were warnings that something had to give. Surely the United States could
not continue to buy $723 million a day more than it sold. The dollar
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and
This is the kind of thing I've been ranting about for months -- years! --
and represents one of the bigger of the Three Bears that have been
threatening the "Goldilocks (low inflation/low unemployment) economy" to an
increasing extent. (The other Big Bear is consumer indebtedness -- see the
Boston Globe
Welfare reform's success at issue
Brandeis study: Data misleading
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff
February 21,2001
Brandeis University think tank has accused state officials of seriously understating
the hunger and other problems former welfare recipients face after
http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/02/21/index.html
PROTESTERS RIGHT
International Monetary Fund Admits Error, Paul Krugman Doesn't
Shannon Hall is the managing editor of TomPaine.com.
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Dubya won? No way bud.
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I'm sure someone here has some words on the Turkish crisis. Or at least
some resources to check out on it. Esp. on demonstations against the
SAP/IMF.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/World/Turkey/
(And don't forget the Daewoo strikers in S. Korea.)
Michael Pugliese
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: "State and Regional Unemployment, 2000 Annual Averages",
indicates that unemployment rates decreased in 33 states and the District
of Columbia from 1999 to 2000. Three of the four regions and seven of the
nine geographic
Prop 9: The Last Chance to Save Utility Consumers
by Tim Bousquet
Gene Coyle, an energy economist who was working with
the consumer protection group Toward Utility Reform
Network (TURN), had long argued that utility
deregulation would result in higher utility rates, as
the utility companies
Who said this:
"The political constituency for the ecological economics viewpoint is not so
much the American working class as the populations in the South who suffer from
their inability to prevent exports that imply social and ecological
dumping...poorest countries may become the real losers
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