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    POPS    Capitalizing on Rural Creativity
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    by masbury  10-11-2009   
     David Brock doesn’t pooh-pooh the challenges facing rural communities, but argues that rural places have the real assets which they can harness to successfully navigate and prosper in the Creative Age
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    POPS    Nike resigns from Chamber board over climate change
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    by masbury  9-30-2009   
     No Remarks
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    POPS    Africa broadband offers hope for growth
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    by masbury  8-10-2009    1
     No Remarks
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    POPS    Economic signs: Washington may have gotten it right
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    by masbury  8-8-2009    4
     "evidence is now pointing pretty strongly in one direction: history books may conclude that the financial crisis of 2008 turned out to be far less bad than it could have been and that Washington deserved much of the credit"
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    POPS    Home prices up; 1st time in 3 years
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    by masbury  7-28-2009    2
     It's a start ...
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    POPS    We can't afford to ignore global warming
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    by masbury  7-15-2009    7
     Acting on it is cheaper and safer for our security and economy than ignoring it.
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    POPS    The Trouble with Normal
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    by masbury  7-5-2009    4
     No Remarks
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    POPS    Galbraith: The purpose of economic forecasting
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    by masbury  6-28-2009   
     quote
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    POPS    Iranian former president vies with Supreme Leader
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    by masbury  6-22-2009    3
     Rafsanjani is a founding father who put Khamenei in power and technically has power to remove him.
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    POPS    Russian Billionaire's $350M yacht
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    by masbury  6-14-2009    3
     Surely the peasants will revolt, Marie.
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    POPS    TARP turns a profit for taxpayers
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    by masbury  6-11-2009   
     Not a big one, but not the disastrous loss that was predicted: taxpayers profit $1.8 billion in dividends.
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    POPS    Manufacturing orders rise sharply in April
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    by masbury  5-28-2009    1
     durable goods orders stabilizing
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    POPS    Shell, Chevron implicated in military suppressions
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    by masbury  5-26-2009    3
     Around the globe, oil companies have paired with dictatorships to ensure that rights of employees and environmental groups are easily ignored.
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    POPS    Europe has less unemployment than USA
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    by masbury  5-22-2009    7
     The US model - long held to keep unemployment at a minimum due to lack of workplace regulation - is falling behind that of many European countries.
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    POPS    French economy shines while US, Britain collapse
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    by masbury  5-18-2009    7
     Smash-and-grab capitalism's inherent instability reveals a much-ignored fact: the French economy, employment, and infrastructure are in much better shape than what business lust has left to the USA. Its healthcare is the best in the world. The average household's debt is half that of the USA.
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    POPS    More email kookies: Do illegal immigrants cost $338 billion?
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    by masbury  4-17-2009   
     Excerpts from yet another email scam, this time pitching anti-immigrant falsehoods.
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    POPS    NYT: Increased taxes on rich favored by 74%
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    by masbury  4-7-2009    8
     Divided evenly on increasing debt to stimulate economy
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    POPS    NYT: Public optimism growing on economy
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    by masbury  4-7-2009   
     Lowest favorable rating of GOP ever recorded
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    POPS    Why you don't want AIG to fail
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    by masbury  3-24-2009    3
     Short answer: It might bankrupt your state treasury. It might bankrupt your local bank. It might put your local industries out of business. If the gov't acts quickly, it can break up and sell off the profitable parts of AIG, recovering the cash it has lent to cover AIG's unregulated Financial Products Division's inability to pay "insurance" benefits that it had sold to cover the risk inherent in mortgage-backed securities.
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    POPS    Why "toxic assets" are such a big deal
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    by masbury  3-24-2009    1
     They prevent banks from knowing how much money they have to lend - so banks cut way back on lending - until businesses that depend on them can't make payroll.
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    POPS    Weren't Repubs protecting bonuses 2 weeks ago?
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    by masbury  3-20-2009    1
     TNR has collected an assortment of quotes from leading Republicans on the hill about executive bonuses and boy are they a doozy. Remember how just a few weeks ago the thought of limiting executive compesation for corporate executives was pure socialism for Republicans?
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    POPS    FoxNews shows Biden quoting McCain, claims Biden said it
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    by masbury  3-17-2009   
     Now says it was an "inadvertent" error. Quote was six months old; Biden was quoting (and disagreeing with) McCain; FoxNews pitched it as Biden's own current opinion. Wow.
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    POPS    January state unemployment map
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    by masbury  3-13-2009   
     Wyoming lowest; Michigan highest
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    POPS    Sen. Graham fights earmarks, asks $950,000
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    by masbury  3-9-2009    4
     Urges opposition to budget bill because of earmarks, but includes a million for a convention center in Myrtle Beach.
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    POPS    Krugman: GOP putting the nation's future at risk
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    by masbury  2-9-2009    2
     Nobel laureate warns of danger of deflation trap - falling wages and demand for goods, rising layoffs - could mean spell disaster: the end of the American middle class. Economy is "on the edge of catastrophe, and much of the Republican party is trying to push it over that edge" out of loyalty to "a discredited economic philosophy."
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    POPS    Tax cuts? Stimulus??? Not really...
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    by earnric  2-6-2009    1
     Republican rhetoric: we need tax cuts! Not really -- at least not if the goal is to stimulate the economy.
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    POPS    Scarborough's looniness: "pure, straight socialism"
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    by masbury  2-2-2009    3
     Why the Obama plan is not charity, and why this kind of tax refund is the most effective at stimulating the economy. Back to high school, Joe. Socialism is about government ownership of the means of production, not about tax refunds!
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    POPS    400 richest Americans' incomes doubled under Bush
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    by masbury  1-30-2009    6
     Observe the present economy. How has trickle-down affected America? Indeed. How dare they tell us tax cuts bring prosperity!
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    POPS    US economy grows under Democrats, shrinks under Republicans
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    by masbury  1-25-2009    8
     Bush is further confirmation: under Dem presidents GDP, employment, stocks grow at a much higher avg than under Republicans. And the major bear markets happen on Republicans' watch. When will we learn?
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    POPS    Shaky economy means 'bye-bye baby' for some
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    by masbury  1-14-2009    13
     Lower birth rate expected.
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    POPS    Alright, Congress, you've failed and failed and failed us
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    by masbury  1-6-2009    1
     Prove to us you're different. Not just Lucy pulling the ball away one more time.
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    POPS    Financial culprits moving to richer digs
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    by masbury  1-1-2009   
     Two examples of ousted executives buying homes worth tens of millions in NYC's swankiest.
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    POPS    Why the middle class is the engine of economic growth
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    by masbury  12-31-2008   
     And why reduction in the capital gains tax won't help the economy
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    POPS    Minimum wage and St. Basil
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    by masbury  12-11-2008    2
     If minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay since 1990, it would be not $6.55, but ...
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    POPS    American Drug War Economics - Vol.1
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    by Spiritualmonkey  12-8-2008    2
     No Remarks
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    POPS    Why lowering taxes on the rich doesn't kick economy
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    by masbury  11-21-2008    1
     In 2007, only 9% of privately-held U.S. businesses ... cited a "shortage of long-term finance" as a constraint on expansion. Shortage of skilled workers is No. 1. How do you increase number of skilled workers? Here's how.
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    POPS    Pelosi: Show us the plan before we show you the money
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    by masbury  11-21-2008    1
     Demands auto industry demonstrate how the industry would be transformed
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    POPS    Detroit Execs spend $60,000 getting to Washington
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    by masbury  11-19-2008   
     Each of the three takes his own private jet (est cost $20K apiece) to DC to beg for tax money, when they could have traveled like the rest of us for $900. Is this the answer or the problem?
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    POPS    Obama: McCain thinks giving a break is socialism
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    by masbury  10-28-2008    7
     "We've always grown the economy from the bottom up. John McCain calls this socialism. I call it opportunity ..."
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    POPS    Why Democrats win when economy's weak
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    by masbury  10-25-2008   
     Republicans push policies that redistribute income from working and middle-class Americans to the rich
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