Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 21, 2008	The meeting with Hu Jintao
Reflections by comrade Fidel: I did not want to talk a lot, but he obliged me to expand on things; I asked some questions and, basically, listened to him. His words recounted the feats of the Chinese people in the last 10 months. Heavy and unseasonal snowfall, an earthquake that...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 19, 2008	Washington summit: converting G8 into G20?
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - On November 14-15, 2008, Washington, D.C. hosted the G20 Leaders Summit on Financial Strategy and the World Economy. The summit achieved general agreement on how to cooperate in key areas to strengthen economic growth, deal with the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 3, 2008	The American dream
By ÖMER TAŞPINAR: History will not be kind to the Bush administration. According to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, an unscientific poll of 109 professional historians found that 61 percent rated President George W. Bush as the worst president in American history. A...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 29, 2008	Capitalism under attack?
By The Nassau Institute: Originally known as economic individualism, The Routledge Dictionary of Economics (2000) informs us that Capitalism is: 1. A socioeconomic system of production using roundabout methods of production (Roundabout method of production is - A method of production...... [view]

Posted By:  cjneil Posted On:  Oct 20, 2008	A comment on Mr Rudd and the economic crisis
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/goodbye-mr-kent-20081018-53mq.html?page=-1 Goodbye, Mr Kent ·         Paul Daley ·         October 19, 2008 IT'S amazing what a rush of Franklin D. Roosevelt can do to a prime minister's brain. One minute our PM Kevin Rudd is a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008	From crisis to panic
By ASIM ERDİLEK: It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 10, 2008	WE ARE AND WE SHOULD BE SOCIALISTS
Reflections of Fidel: LAST October 2nd we discussed the international price of the fuels that we are consuming. I am under the impression that its significance attracted the attention of many leaders and cadres. There is a general debate about the percentage of the population with...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 6, 2008	Rescuing the rescue plan
By ASIM ERDİLEK: What a turbulent and dramatic week it was for the US and the global economies, with sudden political uncertainty about the fate of the bailout plan on top of the worsening financial crisis! The rescue plan had to be rescued itself with political scrambling and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008	Bailout Blues
By Joseph E. Stiglitz: It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system – indeed, global finance – is in a mess. And now, with the US House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion bailout plan, it is also...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008	US debates bailout as crisis worsens
BY: ASIM ERDİLEK: The US Treasury’s sweeping bailout plan hastily presented to the US Congress last Monday to end the global financial crisis has unleashed a furious debate, stalling congressional approval of the plan. This welcome debate, after Congress commendably refused to...... [view]

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