How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Empires on the rise
China and India battle for a London-based energy company pumping oil in Siberia and Kazakhstan. That's globalization, folks.
The subcontinental salsa king
Hindi pop songs plus South American rhythm plus an Intel electrical engineer equals magic

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Dow plunges again, Friedman fans despair
Despite the best efforts of the Federal Reserve to follow the economic prescriptions of Milton Friedman, nothing is working. But Keynes' stock is rising
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It's official: We're in a recession
Remember when Phil Gramm said Americans were a "nation of whiners"? He was wrong. The recession started last December.
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The month the U.S. economy died
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It's official: We're in a recession
Remember when Phil Gramm said Americans were a "nation of whiners"? He was wrong. The recession started last December.
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