The international labor movement is engaging in the economic collapse. They recognize that the powers that control the economy have allowed this situation to occur through their own shortsightedness and greed.
The statements labor leaders make in the article remind me of one I made in my essay “A New Narrative for America” - that, absent [...]
Social Unrest
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
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Economic update
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
As I’ve been counseling my closest friends and colleagues for some time, the big US banks are effectively insolvent (as both Jim Rogers and Nouriel Roubini argue as well). All the money that the federal government has poured into them has simply covered losses. The crisis in confidence is going to continue so long as the [...]
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Hansen: enact carbon taxes
January 18th, 2009 · No Comments
NASA climate scientist James Hansen warns that President-elect Obama must act in his first administration if we have any hope of staving off the worst of expected climate change - and Hansen believes only a worldwide carbon tax that significantly raises the price of carbon-based fuels will do the trick. However unlikely a global tax [...]
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Appeal of central city to employers confirmed
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Companies are seeing recruitment and retention benefits to a central city location. This article in Workforce Management tells the story.
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Personal sacrifice: Obama interview today
January 11th, 2009 · No Comments
President-elect Obama confirms in an interview to air today the VisionFarm belief that one of the fundamental strategic imperatives all large organizations must embrace is increasing financial pressure on the average American. As individuals and as a nation, we have gorged on credit that is disappearing coincident with a great asset devaluation. We are headed [...]
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