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The evolving bailout plan
September 30, 2008, 1 Comment

See also Banks and Wednesday-Night.com Banking’s crisis of confidence deepens Wall Street rebounded in spite of a ...

Lawrence Summers
September 28, 2008, Comments Off on Lawrence Summers

A wonderful diatribe and distinctly ‘other’ view of Larry Summers THISDAY, Lawrence Summers, and the Future ...

Wednesday Night #1386
September 24, 2008, 1 Comment

A small, (competition from the Opéra de Montréal, McGill Chamber Orchestra, pension fund gathering in PEI …) but ...

Paul Krugman on G.W. Bush & U.S. economy
August 29, 2008, 1 Comment

Feeling No Pain PAUL KRUGMAN (NYT) My first reaction to Bill Clinton’s convention speech was sheer professional jealou ...

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Candidates & Issues
August 17, 2008, 1 Comment

More on the 2008 campaign and issues Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious explorati ...

China, Beijing Olympics II
August 7, 2008, 1 Comment

China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet Official website The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games The Olympic Embl ...

Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman

August 1, 2008 Please see Uncertainty and Climate change (Op-Ed, NYT) Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pel ...

The U.S. Economy and Bad Government Policies
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on The U.S. Economy and Bad Government Policies

See also Rodrigue Tremblay on Wednesday-night.com by Rodrigue Tremblay I think the [US financial] system is basically so ...

Moscow to seize grain export controls
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on Moscow to seize grain export controls

July 31, 2008 (FT) Russia plans to form a state grain trading company to control up to half of the country’s cereal ex ...

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Issues – Trade & Tariffs
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on U.S. Presidential Campaign: Issues – Trade & Tariffs

Taxing the Poor Edward Gresser (Foreign Affairs) … most imports arrive not under FTAs but through the permanent ta ...

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