Search Results
-
2Sweden cleanest, S. Arabia dirtiest: climate indexSad but perhaps fitting, that Saudi Arabia comes in last, helped along mightily by the next two bottom-dwellers - the US and Canada.
-
Document
An Economic Analysis Of Contemporary Local Currencies In The United StatesBeginning with Ithaca, New York in 1991, over 80 communities in the United States introduced printed local currencies. This is a curious phenomenon. Over the same period of time, the United States economy was relatively stable by historical standards, electronic payments grew sharply, and 15 ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
12 months ago
- SHARE
- VIEW IN TWINES (11)
-
Bookmark
Bill Gates presses Obama on stimulus package, foreign aid - CNN.comMicrosoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation's sputtering economy, and double the United States' commitment to foreign aid. "Clearly we need a stimulus ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
The Great Debate » Credit cards unkindest cut for U.S. consumers | The Great Debate |Government intervention or not, banks will be cutting up America’s credit cards at an unprecedented rate, with grave implications for the economy and company profits. The U.S. Federal Reserve last week added more nutrition to its alphabet soup of rescue programs when it unveiled the Term ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
Bookmark
Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai - CNN.comDina Mehta is an ethnographer, social media consultant and blogger based in Mumbai, India; she recounts how social networks channeled the sadness and rage of the attacks into action - I celebrated my 42nd birthday on November 26. We were thinking of stepping out for a coffee at the Taj hotel ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
Swiss Voters Approve Legal Heroin Program, Program Allows Addicts To Receive Supervised Doses; Voters Also Uphold Marijuana BanThe world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers across Switzerland. It has helped eliminate ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
It's Official: U.S. In Yearlong Recession, Economy Fell Into Recession In December 2007, National Bureau Of Economic Research Says - CBS NewsThe U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday. The NBER — a private, nonprofit research organization — said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began last December....
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
Inventor Says 'Stolen' Patent Cost U.S. Jobs, MoneyInventor files lawsuit against Nikon saying the Japanese company stole his patent for making flat-screen TVs, which cost the United States thousands of jobs -- and money. An American engineer said that he created the technology behind the flat-screen TV, but a Japanese company took his idea, ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
Canada's vast oil sands hide dirty environmental secretFrom here in the far north of Canada through a web of transcontinental pipelines down to a network of refineries ringing the Chicago area, a new supply of precious oil has begun flowing into the gas tanks of more Americans, tapped from a source so vast it could one day furnish close to half of ...
JDP
added
12 months ago
-
2Drug Companies Cook Books, Misleading DoctorsAh yes - isn't it amazing how well the "invisible hand" of the market works in ensuring people (lives) over profits - NOT! The US is prosecuting two wars and imprisoning "enemy combatants" off shore without charges for killing fewer people (though maybe it was really the billions in financial ...