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Eric Balkan profile image82

Free Trade Debate

Debate, what debate? Doesn't everyone agree that free trade is a good thing? Isn't a borderless global economy inevitable? Well, no. Free trade -- the unrestricted movement of money, goods, and services...

1 comment    economics globalization libertarian
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Rising Food Prices

Rising food prices concern everyone. Food production costs and the rising trend in unconventional uses of food staples have caused prices to soar. This article seeks to identify the many factors that have led...

53 comments    food global warming poverty
Shil1978 profile image70

Protectionism or Free Trade - which benefits humanity as a whole?

All of you would have heard of words like "free trade," "outsourcing/offshoring," etc. People also tend to take extreme positions on these issues. Either for or against. I was wondering which one truly...

3 comments    business politics outsourcing
JYOTI KOTHARI profile image67

G-20 summit: How can the outcome effect the world

G-20 leaders have met in Washington to discuss current economic crisis. The meeting has continued only for six hours.America has dominated the agenda. The meeting is ended up with an announcement of the next meeting in April 2009.

6 comments    india washington crisis
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help, we've been robbed!

Ok, we all understand how we have lost VAST amounts of our national wealth overseas, ie; cars from Japan, fuel from Saudi Arabia, and well, every little piece of junk that we dont need from China. it is...

0 comments    how america toys
A sign of the times?58

Global products are killing US

Unemployment in the United States has reached its highest levels since the Great Depression. The Labor Department recently released figures to show the number of new claims were down. The total rate of...

0 comments    food politics economy
By shopping at locally owned stores, we keep the profit local as well.56

BUY AMERICAN, OR GET OUT!!

we had better start buying american....now who the hell told us it was a good idea to import everything we comsume? really....i want to know who the economic super genius was. was it the grandson of the...

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America going to hell! - Racism, politics, and BS.

Yes I believe we are going down the tubes because of all the BS that goes on with political correctness and how words demean or threaten some people in this world in the last 10-15 years. I always thought...

0 comments    politics people america
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The Next Major Banking and Financial Crisis

              The next major banking and credit crisis is right around the corner, and it will dwarf the U.S. subprime crisis.  The brewing crisis is affecting European banks, which made home...

7 comments    finance economy depression
stanwshura profile image46

It Needs to Be Said Once and For ALL: Police are *NOT* Infallible!

 Well, well, well. Who'd a thunk I'd have found another excuse to wax on about the corrupt, inept and stubborn arrogance of police culture, and of too many officers within that community who broke their...

0 comments    extortion perjury protectionism
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