How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Thursday, July 31, 2008

A GDP paradox
The economy grew faster in the most recent quarter than during the past two. So why are analysts shouting the word "recession" even louder?
Why Exxon desperately wants more offshore drilling
Despite record profits, again, Exxon's production of crude oil is down, again. But no worries: Senate Republicans are on the job.
The right to bear a prepaid cellphone
Should we be required to show identification in order to buy an untrackable phone?

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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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