Global Economy
In April 2010, we hosted a Global Economy News Hunt to find good (and bad) journalism on the economic conditions of people around the world.
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Apple CEO Cook to Propose Tax Reform for Offshore Cash
Apple is facing U.S. government scrutiny after Cook unveiled a plan last month to return $100 billion in cash to ...Posted by Jack Powers -
Everything Is Rigged, Continued: EU Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe
According to numerous reports, the European Commission regulators yesterday raided the offices of oil companies in ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Cisco Thrives On U.S. Strength And A Steadily Improving Global Economy
Cisco posted third quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, beating estimates and delivering a ninth ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
IT security in India under scrutiny after $45m cash machine heists
Millions stolen after gang broke into two card-processing firms based in India and raised balances and withdrawal ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Oil and gas sector exports grow
Exports related to the oil and gas industry grow for the 14th year in a row and are now worth £17.2bn, a survey ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It
In this dream world of global capitalism, young people are going from zero income on the farm to a few dollars a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Trade Agreement' to Further Global Dominance
A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama, Cameron Promote Trade Deal Granting Corporations Political Power
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
It was hard for the Japanese journalist to believe me when I explained that there is little awareness of the TPP ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Do visas for skilled foreigners shut out U.S. tech workers?
Though he was then in his late 50s, Erickson figured the drumbeat of complaints from Microsoft and other tech ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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China's Evolving 'Core Interests'
Editorial: China’s Evolving ‘Core Interests’Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Stop the Plunder of Africa
Op-Ed Contributor: Stop the Plunder of AfricaPosted by Pamela Hogle -
In China, Power Is Arrogant
Op-Ed Guest Columnist: In China, Power Is ArrogantPosted by Pamela Hogle -
Opinionator | Fixes: When Food Isn’t the Answer to Hunger - NY Times: Editorials
Fixes: When Food Isn’t the Answer to HungerPosted by Pamela Hogle -
Sotheby's Auction Boosts Indian Art Sales
India Ink: Sotheby’s Auction Boosts Indian Art SalesPosted by Pamela Hogle
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Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Explaining the upper crust’s preference for austerity economics
At this point, the austerian position has imploded; not only have its predictions about the real world failed ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Charts: How Much Danger Do We Face From Homegrown Jihadist Terrorists?
More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings Perhaps the most unusual thing about the Boston Marathon ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL
On February 17, more than 40,000 climate change activists—many of them quite young—rallied in Washington, DC, ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
How Walmart, ExxonMobil, and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
In late February, some 70 guests arrived for dinner at a hotel near Washington, DC's Union Station. Nine members of ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Apple CEO Cook to Propose Tax Reform for Offshore Cash
The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for ...
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