Economy
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Through Their Eyes | David Glenn Cox
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust June 29, 2013 George Orwell had it all wrong; he couldn’t begin to understand the change that has overtaken the world. Looking back on it with such a wide-eyed ...
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Washington Is Driving The World To The Final War | Paul Craig Roberts
June 28, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- “V For Vendetta,” a film that portrays evil in a futuristic England as a proxy for the evil that exists today in America, ends with the defeat of evil. But this ...
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U.S. Stocks Rise as GDP Report Fuels Fed Stimulus Bets | Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Katie Brennan
June 26, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index higher for a second day, as China’s cash crunch eased and slower-than-forecast economic growth fueled ...
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The Rational Market Myth: Armageddon Without Nukes | Paul Craig Roberts
June 20, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- One of the myths of economics is that markets are rational. Theories are based on this assumption, and the belief that markets are rational fuels the argument ...
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U.S. Stocks Tumble as S&P 500 Extends Monthly Decline | Sofia Horta e Costa and Lu Wang
June 24, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks retreated Monday, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a nine-week low, as Chinese equities entered a bear market amid concern a cash crunch will hurt ...
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A World Without Tigers? | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison ...
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U.S. Stocks Advance Following Biggest Drop Since 2011 | Inyoung Hwang
June 21, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks advanced Friday, rebounding following the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s biggest drop since November 2011 after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said ...
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Stocks, bonds, commodities slump on Fed comments | Herbert Lash
June 20, 2013 -- 5:24 p.m. EDT -- NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Global equity markets, bond prices and commodities fell sharply Thursday in a deep selloff, a day after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. ...
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End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off | Richard Hubbard
LONDON (Reuters) - Clear signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will soon stop pumping money into the global economy and data pointing to slower growth in China sparked sharp falls in bonds, ...
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The Revolution Must Be Accessible: Reject Able-ism | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2013 "I wish we could stop fighting. But so many of our people are still incarcerated in nursing homes and other institutions, so many ...
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Khadamas for Sale: Child Exploitation Bonanza | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 19, 2013 Last night at the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walked in aiming for the westernized café that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The ...
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