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The Fed's Rate-Cut Decision

Stratfor
Geopolitical Diary
March 18, 2008
The U.S. Federal Reserve reduced its headline interest rates from 3 percent to 2.25 percent on Tuesday afternoon. The cut, which was a quarter point less than the consensus expectation of 1 percent, followed the Fed’s March 16 redefinition of the rules of ...

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The Secret Life of SPP


By Vincent Gioia
March 17, 2008

The term "Sub Rosa" (literally "under the rose") was coined to indicate discussions that were to be secret; not to be disclosed to anyone outside the Sub Rosa group. Today we can substitute "SPP"

(Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement) for Sub Rosa ...

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Bush's Big Bank Bailout

Bush's Big Bank Bailout

By Cliff Kincaid
March 17, 2008

Both the Wall Street Journal and conservative economist Lawrence A. Kudlow are defending the Bush Administration’s big-government-socialist bailout of Bear Stearns.

The taxpayers are bailing out a big bank while millions of Americans may be losing their homes in ...

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Change Requires Going Beyond the Name on the Ballot

By Frank Salvato
March 14, 2008
There has been a tremendous amount of talk about “change” this presidential election cycle. Many have pointed out that change for the sake of change is seldom – if ever – a good thing. Unless explicit details of what is to be changed, why it needs changing and just ...

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Rice Has Been An Unmitigated Disaster

Israel should release Palestinians prisoners according to a Plan
By Ted Belman
March 13, 2008

Israel should release most of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by them as part of a plan. I say most because the worst ones, I.e. those with “blood on their hands”, must be kept to make a point, ...

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The Seven Lean Years

By Thomas E. Brewton
March 14, 2008
Jan Burr raises the important point that governments should give attention, not only to current effects of global warming, but also to the near certainty of a severe cooling period within the coming decade. In his comment regarding Global Warming: A Moderate ...

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Democrats on Prozac

Democrats on Prozac
March 11, 2008
Editors Note: You will find this amazingly clear, as Aaron Velasquez uses mind and reason to see and understand the growing situation that is enveloping the United States.  Aaron uses common sense, logic  and his sharp skills as a Sleuth of the Realm to fully understand our present ...

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Living In Liberal La-La Land

March 10, 2008
Nancy Morgan
As a child of the sixties, I was brought up in a time when there was still respect for America's institutions. Be they banks, government, doctors, businesses, charities or churches. I accepted without question their authority, and assigned to them the respect due to the ...

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The U.S. Economy and the Next BIG ONE

The U.S. Economy and the Next BIG ONEMarch 4, 2008
A few months ago, in a piece entitled “Subprime Geopolitics,” we addressed two questions. The first was whether the U.S. economy was heading into recession. The second was whether such a recession would represent anything more than the normal business cycle, or whether it would ...

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