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The Moral Vulnerability of Markets
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Lana
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 1 hour ago - enn.com
Today, there seems to be no coherent alternative to capitalism, yet antimarket feelings are alive and well, expressed for example in the moralistic backlash against globalization.
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Gas Prices Causing Surge Of Mass Transit Riders
Business  (tags: Boston Subway, Gas Prices, Mass Transit, New York City Subway, Subway, Business News )

Blue
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 hours ago - huffingtonpost.com
With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by
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THE BUSH BATTERED DOLLAR
Business  (tags: Credit, Crisis, Meltdown, Money )

Barry
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 8 hours ago - opednews.com
With 4-6 trillion dollars of rich tax cuts, Bush caused more deficits than all before. Since he began, the dollar has dropped 47%, 8% in just a recent 5 weeks-halving the value of trillions of $ foreign investments. For expat Americans the sickening
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Giant Food & Biotech Corporations Make Billions in Profit From Growing Global Food Crisis
Business  (tags: Corporate Profits, Corporations Agriculture, Food Industry- Industrial, Food Policy, Food-Agriculture )

Barry
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 11 hours ago - opednews.com
The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world's richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn in the last quarter.
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Retail Chains Starting to Put Out Smokes
Business  (tags: bizarre, americans, business, consumers, ethics, politics, money )

Dana
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 12 hours ago - usatoday.com
Wegmans, a grocery store chain with 70 stores in five states, took cigarettes off their shelves in February.
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FBI Warns of Tax Rebate Check Scam
Business  (tags: )

Birdie
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 22 hours ago - abcnews.go.com
Fraudsters are sending out fake e-mails notifying individuals that direct deposit is the fastest and easiest way to receive their tax rebate checks from the IRS.
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Is Burger King Spying on Labor Activists?
Business  (tags: union-busting, espionage, burger king, labor, tomato pickers )

Dee
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - alternet.org
"If you're a student in Virginia, how do you get access to a Burger King internal document?"
77
Some Like It Hot
Business  (tags: business, environment, dishonesty, ethics, climate change, lies, oil )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - motherjones.com
Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil.
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Put a Tyrant in Your Tank
Business  (tags: business, oil, abuse, corruption, world, news )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - motherjones.com
You thought ExxonMobil was bad? Meet the new kings of crude.
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MTBE Contamination Settlement Could Cost Oil Companies $423 Million
Business  (tags: business, energy, oil, world, corporate, politics )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - latimes.com
More than 500 lawsuits in California and 19 other states over groundwater fouled by the gasoline additive are resolved.
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How to Get the Most Out of Every Gas Purchase | Daily News
Business  (tags: auto, energy, family, environment, interesting, protection, society, technology, travel, world, automotive, consumers, money, finance, energy, news, oil )

Club
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 2 days ago - news.varadinum.com
As the cost of driving seems to rise every day, drivers are looking to get the most out of every tank. While some use alternate modes of transportation, many people need their cars on a daily basis. For those in the driver's seat, there are simple ways to
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ICE Says Climate to Dominate Carbon Trade
Business  (tags: business, energy, carbon trading, environment, world, greenbuilding )

Cal
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
London-based Climate Exchange Plc (CLIE.L: Quote, Profile, Research) should dominate growing global climate trade though it will face competition from a New York-based venture that launched in March, Jeffrey Sprecher, the head of the IntercontinentalExcha
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Multinationals Make Billions in Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
Business  (tags: corporate, corruption, dishonesty, consumers, abuse, economy )

Laurie
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 3 days ago - prisonplanet.com
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs
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The Bonsey Business of One Nation Under Corporate Rule
Business  (tags: Assassination, Conspiracy, Corporate Contributions, Corporate Corruption Crime, Corporate Federalism, Corporate Layoffs, Corporate Media, Corporate Responsibility, Democracy )

Barry
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 4 days ago - opednews.com
For one hundred and fifty one years Skull & Bones was one of the world's most powerful, secret societies. In 1983 Antony Sutton broke the silence and exposed the members, by publishing America's Secret Establishment, An Introduction to the Order of Skull
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Is Your Job Recession-Proof?
Business  (tags: economy )

Michael
StarsButterfliesGold Notes
- 4 days ago - careerbuilder.com
Though it's difficult to predict exactly how the year will pan out, weak job growth, a slowing economy and troubled housing markets all point to signs of an economic recession.
 

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