How much worse can things get when French are forced to shell out more for snails reports Angelique Chrisafis for The Guardian. She says that "Snails, France's national delicacy, are the latest menu item to panic consumers after the industry warned a shortfall in the 2008...
Here's an article from Reason Magazine written by Matt Welch. It's about what happened after the tech crash that happened at the turn of the millenium."Despite the considerable hit that the wave of tech publication closures had on the pocketbooks of freelancers like me, it...
" LITTLE Rhys Harris is bursting with life - after two months as the "boy in the bubble" fighting an incredibly rare illness. The brave seven-year-old is only the SECOND child in the world to be cured of the genetic...
"The Mexico City Tourism Board is beckoning fans to "Visit Mexico City" in festive lettering on the sidepods of the No. 96 PCM car. The tourism board has made a two-year commitment to sponsor the car. This...
George Soros the out-spoken billionaire investor, just came out with a very gloomy assessment of the US and world economies. In an interview with a BBC news editor, Mr. Soros said the"financial bubble" of the last 25 years could be drawing to an end andthe post World War II...
Forget peak oil for a little while. Are oil prices set to drop in the mid term?"The difficulty with the bubble moniker is determining exactly how much of the price is being driven by purely speculative factors. With Crude, a variety of forces are driving prices: A...
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Bryan Kavanagh has done the math! He shows that rises and falls in the economy follow those in the property market by 12-24 months. –Read the entire article, and many more articles on this subject, on the...
"Opinion: The Federal Reserve, which has been credited with creating the current housing bubble and bust just as it created the credit bubble of the Roaring Twenties and the bust of 1929, is now to be given vast new...
The New York Times Technology section has a slew of excellent articles on the current social networking internet company investments. Start with this and then read the related articles at the end, on the NY Times...
NowPublicans with money in US banks need to read this article by Mike Whitney, who has been bang on in his predictions about the state of the US economy over the last year."On January 14, 2008 the FDIC web site began...
"Globalisation: sleepwalking to disaster
Ann Pettifor
The scale of global debt reflects a broken financial and commercial system that is doing immense damage to the planet and to public life, says Ann Pettifor.
11 - 12 - 2007
On 9 August 2007, globalisation's rickety...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorUniversity Students looking at getting into the Halls of Political Power join Fraternities, The Conservative Club and it's Blue Banner of Tory Conservativism, which...
It has become almost as fashionable to be calling the bubble as it is to participate in its growth. So is it really a bubble?"Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music...
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Normally, I am never at a loss for words on any topic, this time News Columnist Eric Margolis takes the words right out of my mouth."Western nations have been rightly scourging China for flooding world markets with...
Is this the beginning of the end of our modern day banking system? Mike Whitney uses his substantial expertise in this terrifying summary of economist's views on what is in store for all of us, as the pace of...