How the World Works

Posts on Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Obamanomics to the rescue
Global warming, recession, war, healthcare, the energy crisis: A new book argues that Barack Obama has an answer for everything.
Home prices: Worst drop ever, or a sign of hope?
Either the sky is continuing to fall, or the storm is abating. Or both.
Rush Limbaugh: "Why can't we be more like China?"
The conservative icon reinvents himself as a supporter of government intervention in the economy. Give me my state-subsidized SUV, or give me death!
A name China scholars will remember
John "Beginning Chinese" DeFrancis passes away. Who knew he once tangled with Senator Joe McCarthy?
Obama: "A clean break from a troubled past"
The president-elect makes his case to the nation for immediate action on the economy. Let's hope Senate Republicans were listening.
Even Wal-Mart gets the blues
Cutbacks in discretionary spending take their toll, even at the "low-price leader"
How humans cooled the earth -- 500 years ago
After pandemics caused a mass die-off in the New World, farmland turned to forest and temperatures dropped

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Obama: "A clean break from a troubled past"
The president-elect makes his case to the nation for immediate action on the economy. Let's hope Senate Republicans were listening.
Even Wal-Mart gets the blues
Cutbacks in discretionary spending take their toll, even at the "low-price leader"
How humans cooled the earth -- 500 years ago
After pandemics caused a mass die-off in the New World, farmland turned to forest and temperatures dropped

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