Submitted by Motown_Terri
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Author : Tian LiThe United States International Trade Commission (ITC) Friday made preliminary determination to continue antidumping duty investigations on imports of seamless refined copper pipe and tube from China and Mexic (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
It's an issue that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed socialist agree on: Congress should have the authority to call for the Federal Reserve to be audited. But it is also s (Read More)
The Undercover Economist:
Nobody has done more to damage relations between the joyous commercial festival that is Christmas and the economics profession than Joel Waldfogel. Long-term readers of this column will be well aware of Professor Waldfogel’s (Read More)
New York Times:
Even as the British economy seems to be improving, some analysts worry that its underlying structural flaws could mean the country won’t be able to sustain its recovery.
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The Guardian:
Ineluctably, a worm is turning deep inside President Barack Obama's policy of constructive engagement. Mr Obama needs something, somewhere to go right. He has filled audiences in Berlin and Cairo with hope. He has deployed hi (Read More)
Outside The Beltway | OTB:
A CNN poll released today finds that “opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting.” According to the survey, “38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, b (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle b (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTilt (Read More)
The Guardian:
The mood in Brussels is bleak as experts agree politicking has triumphed over ambition in the appointment of two new leaders, writes Ian TraynorEurope's hopes of translating its economic power into global political clout have (Read More)
Financial Times:
'Try it: millions will love it,' writes Martin Wolf, the FT's chief economics commentator. In the UK, the mob is once again baying for blood. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Poor parents pick child's school because it is close to home, while middle-class parents go on good academic recordGiving parents a choice over primary schools increases the social divide, a study reveals.The majority of poor (Read More)
Business of Green:
Peter Löscher, chief executive of the German engineering conglomerate, answers questions about his solar and wind business and the American clean-tech market. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
For some reason, the State of Illinois thinks I'm qualified to teach history. I didn't major in history, or even political science. Though I did take a couple history courses in college, they had titles like, "The History of (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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How can a firm that never loses money be so totally wrong?Just this Monday, Goldman Sachs helped to gap the markets higher at the open in low-volume futures trading with the following pronouncement: "Goldman Sachs resumes cov (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked onlineHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate (Read More)
Huffington Post:
THERE IS ANOTHER vexing question inherent in preserving forests: What happens to the people who use the land? Efforts to protect biodiversity in the dwindling wildlands of the world have increasingly run into a discomfiting t (Read More)