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The Crashing Economy - Useful Bibliography of Recent News
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
[We've put out a lot of these articles, but have had to be selective.
This is quite useful list of links for those who want more. -NYTr]
sent by Riaz K Tayob - Jan 13, 2008
For any who may have missed some of these items, or just turned back
to TV infotainment, here are some of the top stories of the last month
or so..
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The U.S. Recession Has Arrived
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7176255.stm
Housing Crash - Realtors Quit
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/csm/brand/SIG=114211ceu/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2F
Experts say we're approaching a recession. For most Americans, it's
already started. http://ga3.org/ct/lpNVpX61NYwg/
Recession -- Who Cares?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/recession-who-cares_b_80748.html
Bush convenes Plunge Protection Team
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?&&xml=/money/2008/01/07/ccview107.xml
George Bush ponders tax rebates as Goldmans Sachs says recession will
hit US this year
http://business.timesonline.co..uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3162452.ece
Food riots of the 21st century
http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?area=/insight/+insight__international/&articleId=328941
Forget oil, the new global crisis is food
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=213343
Consuming passion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/07/health.foodanddrink
Welcome to Third World, USA
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/290065
Global Food Crisis -- Credit Crunch Could Pale in Comparison
http://www.safehaven.com/article-9165.htm
Inflation Squeezing Struggling U.S. Economy
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1217/p01s01-usec.html
U.S. Economic Collapse Infects World
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aUs1KMhofeRg
Car dealers close as Ford, GM, Chrysler keep cutting
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4078401&page=1
U.S. Home Foreclosures Hit Record High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601052.html
Why the era of cheap food is over
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1231/p13s01-wogi.html
Getting ready for a no-growth future
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080104.wreckoning0104/BNStory/International/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
The high costs of doing nothing, part I Spending on adaptation and
mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/1/8/145549/7963
Eating Fossil Fuels
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
Beyond the Point of No Return It?s too late to stop climate change ? so
what do we do now? http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/10/165845/92
The coming recession: Not an accident
http://www.jamesclayfuller.com/2007/12/recession-not-accident.html
The Last Days of the United States Dollar
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/kunstler/kunstler112707.html
Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/food-d22.shtml
US mayors? report: Hunger and homelessness intensify in US cities
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/mayo-d29.shtml
The Coming Collapse of the Modern Day Banking System
http://www.counterpunch.com/whitney12172007.html
The impending destruction of the U.S. economy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18787.htm
Hospital bills almost doubled during the past decade
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-hospitals1307dec13,0,2841271,full.story
Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OVEHPHGIHWD1XQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/money/2007/12/10/bcnusa110.xml
US Home Foreclosures Hit Record High
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601052_pf.html
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/03/food.climatechange
Report: World food prices to rise
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_WORLD_FOOD_PRICES?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
S&P: US home prices fall by a record in October for 23rd straight month
of deceleration
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071226/NEWS0102/913246373/-1/FOSNEWS0405
Is A World Wide Famine In The Works?
http://www.countercurrents.org/riggins211207.htm
After We Lose Our Homes, Is Our Retirement Next?
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/07/after-we-lose-our-homes-is-our-retirement-next/
U.S. consumer prices rise more than anticipated
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071215.RTICK15-7/TPStory/
TPBusiness/America/
Lovelock: The Point of No Return is Behind Us
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=5725&method=full
Why America's Currency Is the World's Problem
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,520700,00.html
"A Generalized Meltdown of Financial Institutions"
http://counterpunch.org/whitney11242007.html
Facing a Global Threat to Farming and Food Supply
http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2007/11/27/news/ag_news/news19.txt
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