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Economy
Raising Interest Rates Could Have an Adverse Effect on Federal and State Budgets
Last week, the BLS announced that unemployment had fallen to 5.5 percent.
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Lessons From Norway in Getting Women Onto Corporate Boards
Norway has one of the best records with women holding 35.5% of the seats on Norwegian stock index companies.
Economist Roger Bootle: “Grexit” Is the Only Solution for Greece
Bootle shares his views as to how Greece should exit the eurozone without being forced out of the European Union.
I Wish I Was in Dixie? Culture, Planning and the Future of the Southern “Boom“
Polycentric cities will continue to grow, and they will continue to attract new residents-for now.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act, and More
It's anyone's guess as to whether the Affordable Care Act will survive its latest challenge.
Escaping Economic Orthodoxy in Latin America
An interview with Ha-Joon Chang on the region's alternatives to the Washington Consensus.
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February’s Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors
Job growth remains strong in February.
Economic Update: Economic Decline and Growing Resistance
This episode provides updates on taxis vs. Uber vs. driver co-ops, an apology on Detroit, and more.
What Trickle-Down Economics Has Done to the US: The Rich Get All the Money
Wealth is being redistributed in the US from the poor and the middle class to the rich.
When Capitalism Becomes an Act of War
Inside the trauma of globalization.