Dead Aid Book Could Invigorate Africa

Richard Cooper a month ago Region: United States

Dambisa 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

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Ron Paul's Audit The Fed Bill HR 1207

Richard Cooper 3 months ago Region: New York

  Former 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

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Cash For Clunkers: A Marker On The Road To Serfdom

Richard Cooper 3 months ago Region: New York

  The 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

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Op Ed: Failure of Capitalism is Clear

Razu Ahmed 5 months ago Region: Bangladesh

Capitalism 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

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MTA Payroll Tax Proposal Taxes Employment

Richard Cooper 6 months ago Region: New York

The 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

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Money Meltdown Causing Evacuation of Wall Street

Trina L. Tlgdthn 7 months ago 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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VIDEO: The Recession Hits the Catwalk at New York Fashion Week

Yue Xu 9 months ago Region: New York

With a 1.6 percent decline in retail sales in January and 27.6 percent fall in the U.S. luxury fashion segment sales, it is no surprise that the recession has affected New York's fashion week.  This eight-day affair, ... more

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Obama Rescue Plan: Wasted Opportunity?

Swaraaj Chauhan 9 months ago Region: United States

The enormity of the global financial crisis, with its epicentre in the USA, has taken even the big economists and pundits by surprise. Now as the world waits with a bated breath, President Barack Obama's team has offe... more

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Today's Economic Crisis Needs Yesterday's Economic Wisdom

Richard Cooper 11 months ago Region: United States

Let us take a step back from the economic crisis we face in 2008 and the plethora of articles it has generated to take a look at some of yesterday's economic wisdom.  These books are written at a level accessible to ... more

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Catch two birds with one stone: Ban Ki-moon

Mohan Nepali 9 months ago Region: Switzerland

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked nations to work towards developing and adopting the low-carbon economy to effectively cope with the environmental crisis as well as to generate more jobs to deal with the economic... more

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