Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: Alice Walton, China, Class Warfare, Lee Scott, Recession, Wal-Mart
These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]
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Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: Alice Walton, China, Class Warfare, Lee Scott, Recession, Wal-Mart
These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]
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Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: CEPR, Dean Baker, Housing Bubble, Recession, Unemployment
Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]
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Posted on 30 January 2008. Tags: CEPR, Dean Baker, Housing Bubble, Recession, Unemployment
Millions of workers have already been facing their own personal recession for a long time, whether or not the classic definition of a national recession has been met, or found, by the official prognosticators. But, speaking of prognosticators, my friends at the Center for Economic and Policy Research have just released a paper entitled […]
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Posted on 29 January 2008. Tags: Angelo Mozilo, Class Warfare, Countrywide, Delphi, Greed, Gretchen Morgenson, Robert Miller, UAW
One of the things that has clearly outraged Americans everywhere is the disgusting spectacle of CEOs legally looting their companies with pay and pensions that are absolutely outrageous. For a long time, a collective Marie Antoinette cry from the CEO suites spilled out that, while a few CEOs pocket massive amounts of money, workers […]
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Posted on 29 January 2008. Tags: Angelo Mozilo, Class Warfare, Countrywide, Delphi, Greed, Gretchen Morgenson, Robert Miller, UAW
One of the things that has clearly outraged Americans everywhere is the disgusting spectacle of CEOs legally looting their companies with pay and pensions that are absolutely outrageous. For a long time, a collective Marie Antoinette cry from the CEO suites spilled out that, while a few CEOs pocket massive amounts of money, workers […]
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Posted on 26 January 2008. Tags: Class Warfare, Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Health Care, Labor, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]
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Posted on 26 January 2008. Tags: Class Warfare, Climate Change, Energy Efficient, Health Care, Labor, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart Watch
I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]
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Posted on 25 January 2008. Tags: Big Media, CBS, Class Warfare, Disney, Michael Cieply, NBC, Rupert Murdoch, Unions, Viacom, Writers Guild of America
Sure, there are a lot of reporters who could qualify for the title "worst reporter ever"? Judith Miller, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Friedman, David Broder…there is a large class of people who claim to practice journalism but seem to be caught in the grips of gullibility, conventional wisdom, their own ideology or simply the desire […]
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Posted on 25 January 2008. Tags: Big Media, CBS, Class Warfare, Disney, Michael Cieply, NBC, Rupert Murdoch, Unions, Viacom, Writers Guild of America
Sure, there are a lot of reporters who could qualify for the title "worst reporter ever"? Judith Miller, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Friedman, David Broder…there is a large class of people who claim to practice journalism but seem to be caught in the grips of gullibility, conventional wisdom, their own ideology or simply the desire […]
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