National News Towns print money to help local merchants
ATLANTA, (IPS/GIN) - In the face of an economic system in full crisis mode, a handful of communities across the U.S. and the globe have begun experimenting with alternative forms of local currency as a pathway to sustainability.
Updated Jun 19, 2009 - 3:26:22 PM
Health & Fitness Pharmaceutical companies stand to make profit from ‘swine flu'
A Boston-based company, Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Global, Inc. (EPFR), a provider of fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world, reported on May 1 that health-care and biotechnical companies recorded their first week of stock price increases since February.
Updated May 25, 2009 - 12:35:54 PM
Business & Money The Employee Free Choice Act
One of the apparent mysteries many people ponder is how it was that union membership was responsible for virtually building the American middle class after World War II and now so many people appear to blame unions for the loss of jobs, rather than the push for more profits by company bosses? The answer is fear.
Updated May 6, 2009 - 11:49:48 AM
Business & Money No more money for the bankers say marchers
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - For two days protesters representing youth groups, immigrants' rights advocates, anti-war activists, unions, health care workers and the homeless marched around Wall Street, the symbol of America's financial power, to demand a “bail out for the people not the banks.”
Updated Apr 20, 2009 - 3:53:40 PM
Business & Money Payday loans squeeze millions in fees
New research from the Center for Responsible Lending has found payday lenders are nearly eight times more concentrated in California's Black and Latino neighborhoods as compared to White neighborhoods, draining these communities of $247 million in payday loan fees.
Updated Apr 20, 2009 - 3:23:07 PM
Business & Money The Truth about Trickle-Down Economics
For decades, the U.S. and Europe have meddled in Haitian political and economic affairs. None of that meddling has resulted in prosperity for any sector of the society, and has only put basic necessities out of the reach of the world's poorest people.
Updated Apr 19, 2009 - 1:35:04 PM
Business & Money The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
As we compiled the Multinational Monitor list of the 10 Worst Corporations of 2008, it would have been easy to restrict the awardees to Wall Street firms. But the rest of the corporate sector was not on good behavior during 2008 either, and we didn’t want them to escape justified scrutiny.
Updated Jan 28, 2009 - 12:22:00 PM
Business & Money Deepening economic crisis closes out 2008 Credit crunch, job uncertainty troubling America (FinalCall.com) - America recognizes the last part of the year as a holiday, reserved for parties and gift giving, but many are wondering what’s to celebrate when they are suffering the worst economic crisis in decades?
Updated Jan 5, 2009 - 12:56:00 AM
Business & Money Study: $1.6B of bailout funds given to bank execs
WASHINGTON - Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.
Updated Jan 5, 2009 - 12:55:00 AM
