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    As I wrote yesterday, the markets around the world are in a freefall. This morning, things are looking just as grim, with predictions that the Dow will drop 500 points in early trading based on what happened yesterday and overnight in foreign markets. The Federal Reserve has just announced a 3/4 of a point […]

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    Across the world, while the markets here are closed, there is a melt down under way. This is a report from The Wall Street Journal’s website: Asian stocks suffered a heavy blow Monday on fears of a U.S. recession, as India’s index set a record with a 7.4% plunge and 5% or more was […]

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    Across the world, while the markets here are closed, there is a melt down under way. This is a report from The Wall Street Journal’s website: Asian stocks suffered a heavy blow Monday on fears of a U.S. recession, as India’s index set a record with a 7.4% plunge and 5% or more was […]

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    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    Not surprisingly, the Directors Guild of America has struck a tentative deal with Big Media. The DGA has always been perceived as more producer-friendly in the business because many of the heavy-weight directors are producers themselves and some are mini-empires. Of course, the spin that is being put out is that this is a […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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    Today brings some pretty grim news, on top of the bad news that has been percolating over the past few months. First, wholesale prices really went sky-high in 2007: Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest amount in 26 years while retailers suffered their worst December shopping season in five years as […]

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    When I first posted last week on the crossing of the Writers Guild of America’s picket lines by two labor-related academics, most of the focus was on Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber–perhaps mainly because Strikebreaker Seeber’s actions elicited a howl of protest from some of his colleagues. A bit more unnoticed were the actions by Richard […]

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    When I first posted last week on the crossing of the Writers Guild of America’s picket lines by two labor-related academics, most of the focus was on Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber–perhaps mainly because Strikebreaker Seeber’s actions elicited a howl of protest from some of his colleagues. A bit more unnoticed were the actions by Richard […]

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    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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