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Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act ACTION
Business  (tags: finance, money, banking, US, glass-steagall, middle class, corruption )

Nancy
- 274 days ago - signon.org
Glass-Steagall aided in a six-decade rise of a more egalitarian financial system and a healthy middle class. Its 1999 repeal ushered in our current era of reckless and ruinous banking practices, which brought the USA to the brink of financial disaster...
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Facade of Energy Independence Falls Off Nuclear "Renassiance"
Business  (tags: energy, nuclear, world, US, France, Atomic Energy Act, Exelon, finance )

Nancy
- 252 days ago - beyondnuclear.org
The EPR project (aka "European Problem Reactor") is the reason that EdF cannot find a US corporate partner. The only two EPR projects under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland and Flamenville, France are years behind schedule, billions of Euros over budge
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U.S. Guns, The Awful, Shocking Truth
Business  (tags: guns, Mexico, US, money, corruption, drug lords, 60000lives, Aurora, ATF )

Nancy
- 277 days ago - alternet.org
...in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, there are more than 8,000 federally licensed firearms dealers. Behind these weapons there is a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Orange Shadow Over Olympics
Business  (tags: Olympics, Daw Chemical, dioxin, herbicide, War, Agent Orange, London, US, Vietnam War, environment, habitat, habitatdestruction, illness, death, ethics, money )

Naoko
- 297 days ago - ipsnews.net
Agent Orange (AO) often called the "last regacy" of the United States war in Vietnam (1955-1975), has popped up again thanks to its manufacturer Daw Chemical's controversial sponcership of the Olympic Games.
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Sustainable Business: How Worker Owned Companies Work
Business  (tags: workers, mondragon cooperative, Spain, US, workers rights, wealth equity, sustainable model, business, worker owned companies, success )

Brian
- 48 days ago - truth-out.org
Worker owned companies from the Mondragon co-ops in Spain to those in the US are thriving even in this sluggish global economy. These co-ops are the model for a more just economy and society.
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US Retail Companies Track Employee Thefts in Vast Databases & Blacklist Even Innocent Workers
Business  (tags: Retailers, business, US, huge databases, records, accusations, employee theft, LexisNexis, Esteem, coerced confessions, innocent employees, blacklisted, future employment, sharing database info, Dollar General )

LucyKalei
- 46 days ago - nytimes.com
Retailers across US amassing huge databases of records on workers accused of stealing, then using info to block future employment. Info routinely shared even when no criminal charge against worker. Some coerced into confessing; ignore statements stored
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FSA to Oversee Libor in Streamlining of Tarnished Rates
Business  (tags: Economy · Law · Canada · , US, Currencies, Finance, Personal Finance, usa, money, lies, investing, investments, investors, law, ethics, finance, economy, dishonesty, co )

JL
- 233 days ago - bloomberg.com
Oversight of Libor will be handed to the U.K.'s financial regulator, and dozens of the currencies and maturities that make up the benchmark axed, under proposals designed to revive confidence in a rate tarnished by scandal.
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