How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Thursday, November 20, 2008

Like a phoenix, Orange County rises again
Out of the ashes of the subprime meltdown -- new life: An FDIC headquarters for managing the shutdown of failed financial institutions
Sen. James Inhofe calls out Andrew Leonard
The environmentalist's worst nightmare rails against the proposal that fuel economy standards be part of any auto bailout. And he blames me.
Worst of all possible bailouts?
A deal to keep automakers afloat might be in the offing, but appears to do little to solve economic problems that are getting worse by the second.
Democratic leadership: No bailout for Detroit
Call it TARP fallout: Reid, Pelosi demand a "viable plan" for survival before any rescue for the auto industry.
As goes Detroit, so goes the Dow
For the second consecutive day, stock indexes drop 5 percent. Is it a case of the no bailout blues?
Cheap oil's victims
For Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sub-$50 oil is a disaster. But don't cheer too loud

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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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