Archive for October, 2008
What You Don’t Know About the U.S. Bailout
Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700 billion that the government doesn’t have, just to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But did you know about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system on top of that? Or [...]
Why the U.S. Economy is Going to Get Much Worse
p>The derivatives market is worth more than $516 trillion, roughly 10 times the value of the entire world’s output: it’s been called the “ticking time-bomb”. Unsurprisingly, this news comes to us from Britain; the U.S. media is not going to mention it. p> p>The complex and opaque derivatives markets, land of hedge funds and complex [...]
The Next President Will Also Be the Farmer in Chief
p>Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,†has written an open letter to the next President of the United States. p>In it, he points out that among the major issues facing the new Commander-in-Chief will be one that has barely been mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something [...]
Google Lets You Browse the Classics — Without Opening a Book
With Google Book Search, you can flick through books from the comfort of your home computer! img src=”wild>/aggbug.aspx?PostID=71195″ width=”1″ height=”1″>br>a runat=”server” href=’/blogs/public_blog/Google-Lets-You-Browse-the-Classics—-Without-Opening-a-Book-71195.aspx#comments’> img runat=”server” border=”0″ alt=wild> wild>/img>/a>
Are Undiagnosed Allergies the Cause of Your Health Problems?
In this video, Dr. Doris J. Rapp talks about getting to the root of what might be causing your illness.img src=”wild>/aggbug.aspx?PostID=71196″ width=”1″ height=”1″>br>a runat=”server” href=’/blogs/public_blog/Are-Undiagnosed-Allergies-the-Cause-of-Your-Health-Problems–71196.aspx#comments’> img runat=”server” border=”0″ alt=wild> wild>/img>/a>