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// Castaway
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One recent evening, I was writing something and I thought I'd coined a nifty new phrase to describe a major factor in the economic meltdown: "fictitious capital." I decided to...
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Word. My professor says people are asking questions they never would have before.
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Concluding his first international summit, President Barack Obama hailed agreements at the emergency meeting of world powers Thursday as a "turning point in our pursuit of global economic...
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Current: The new mouthpiece for power.
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I remember the day when you could visit the hompage and it would seem like their was something new everyday. Now when I visit Current.com it seems that nothing ever changes. Voting used to be...
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Never have I seen as many people walk out of a movie as I saw during a Saturday showing of “Watchmen.”
It’s hard to say exactly when the trickle became an exodus – but...
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So now these stories stay up all day?
I suggest make duel headlines..trivial shit on one
side and real world matters on the other.
Yall are getting all hipster on us..
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In a bleaker assessment than those of most private forecasters, the World Bank predicted Sunday that the global economy would shrink in 2009 for the first time since World War II.
The bank did...
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The economy being cyclic does not tell us nothing about the nature of the system. i.e. exploitative, inherent inequalities, destruction of nature etc. etc.
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Google wants to organise all the world's information.
That's the official line, at least, but what it really wants to do is organise all the world's information and stick ads on...
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Everyone loves Nike, but does that make them just? It's the concentration of power and resources that is worrisome *think Bush. Im sure this also intersects with Net...
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The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs.
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7-foot octopus in Boston does Houdini act in reverse by slithering into locked 14-inch box
read more at link....
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"stop hating", that's so 90's..
listen, oh exalted moderator of the Current news page, relax and do not take it personal.
Given the state of the...
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In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about...
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WASHINGTON
, March 1 (UPI) -- "Socialist" has apparently arrived as a favorite negative term for conservatives to use in describing political opponents, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT)...
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