Dead Aid Book Could Invigorate Africa
Region: United StatesDambisa Moyo's book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way For Africa, contends that development aid from the West to Africa not only has not worked but is detrimental to the Africans. See www... more
Views: 1337What Still Ails America
Region: United States9/09/09 What Still Ails America By Mary Lyon Okay, full disclosure, up top. Liberal here. Progressive. Especially about the mushrooming health care crisis in this country. I like the idea of a public option. I disl... more
Views: 1903Ron Paul's Audit The Fed Bill HR 1207
Region: New YorkFormer presidential candidate, physician and Congressman Ron Paul (Republican-Texas) introduced HR 1207 with the name "Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009", but known to its many supporters as the Audit T... more
Views: 8691Cash For Clunkers: A Marker On The Road To Serfdom
Region: New YorkThe Obama administration's cash for clunkers program is another marker on the road to serfdom. We are indebted to Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's insights into the baleful consequences of the welfare state i... more
Views: 2049Governments Need To Invest In The Education of Girls In Developing Nations Says A New Report
Region: SwitzerlandAccording to a new report issued by the International Labor Office (ILO) in Geneva, for the World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, the global financial crisis could push an increasing number of children, particular... more
Views: 1759Op Ed: Failure of Capitalism is Clear
Region: BangladeshCapitalism has failed. This fact conditions all future developments. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, all the mouthpieces of capitalism repeated the mantra, ‘socialism has failed, capitalism h... more
Views: 1390A Human crisis is looming over North Western Pakistan
Region: Pakistan
Peshawar, Pakistan: Since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, for the first time in the history of Pakistan some 1 million people are fleeing from the troubled areas of Swat, Buner and some other parts of North Western ... more
Views: 1225MTA Payroll Tax Proposal Taxes Employment
Region: New YorkThe notion of a payroll tax on employers in New York City and seven other counties has become entrenched in financing proposals for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). It would be levied against each $100 ... more
Views: 3052CPB Urges for Effective Measures to face the impact of global Financial Crisis in Bangladesh
Region: BangladeshThe Communist Party of Bangladesh has urged the government to take effective measures to resolve the impact of global financial crisis in Bangladesh. The CPB in its two days long presidium meeting on 1st February at its ce... more
Views: 1044Money Meltdown Causing Evacuation of Wall Street
Region: United States
"The Crash of '09." "The Great Recession." Whatever iconic name will be imposed upon the ongoing financial crisis, it is likely the economic downturn will simply be analyzed by economists as the flood of dollars going out ... more
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