Tag: economics
group name: iconoclasm
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:13 PM EDT --
When Enron melted down, many attributed it to dishonesty, but I and many others saw it as the inevitable consequence of a financial and accounting system that was still rooted in the tangibles of an industrial . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Over and over again, in this election season, I hear the presidential primary and presidential campaigns reduced to the cult of personality. Will McCain keep us in Iraq? Will Hillary be business . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Yesterday on On Point (produced at my own favorite local NPR station, WBUR) an economist was discussing how even though entry level programming jobs would be lost in a global economy, we'd be alright . . .
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