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Guns or butter? Butter, says Peace Economy Project

August 15, 2018 Maggie Hannick Economy, War Leave a comment

What’s better: a military-based economy or a peace-based economy?  Jason Sibert of the Peace Economy Project, says that cutting military spending and funding human

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Invasion of the stink bug: Icky and economically dangerous

October 9, 2017 Renee Shur Consumer issues, Environment, Health, Science Leave a comment

And now, a word about the brown marmorated stink bug. If you haven’t heard of it, count yourself lucky. This autumn the stink bug,

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It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?

January 2, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, 2016 Election, Obama, Republicans Leave a comment

Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an

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The case for closing our overseas military bases

October 26, 2015 Madonna Gauding Media, Military, Politics 2 comments

The most popular post, over the years, on Occasional Planet is: “Military Mystery: how many bases does the US have, anyway?”  American University anthropology

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Joe Stiglitz wants to rewrite the rules of the American economy

May 18, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Economy, Financial reform, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

The time is ripe for genuine progressive ideas to take hold because, for once, they have a chance to resonate with people across the political spectrum. Bernie Sanders and Joe Stiglitz, together, offer real solutions to an economy, and a country, gone off the rails.

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Glass-Steagall: Warren and Sanders bring it back into focus

May 13, 2015 Madonna Gauding Congress, Economy, Financial reform 4 comments

Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are putting a new focus on the Glass-Steagall Act, which was, unfortunately, repealed in 1999 and led directly

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Obama and TPP

TPP: What Obama’s secret trade deal means for you

April 24, 2015 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Obama Leave a comment

Since 2009, the Obama administration has been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Parnership (TPP) trade agreement in secret. Only lawyers and advisors representing banks and corporations,

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Real unemployment rate

A closer look at the 5.9% unemployment rate

December 4, 2014 Madonna Gauding Economy, Employment One comment

If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.

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Why is the stock market soaring when the real economy is on its knees?

October 30, 2014 Madonna Gauding Banks, Economy, Employment, Poverty 2 comments

The short answer is the Fed has been propping up the stock market. And, high stock prices are not always tethered to traditional methods of stock

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Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?

July 29, 2014 Madonna Gauding Congress, Obama, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War Leave a comment

At the close of 2013, WIN/Gallup published the results of a massive world opinion poll in which they asked over 66,000 people from 65

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