Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town had to shut down.
Twenty-one hundred Georgians lost their jobs.
The tale of Cooper Tire and what it portends is told in last week’s Washington Post by Peter [...]

im an american born woman. i am a full us citizen.i have volunteered and attended college and had working internships in the us.i should be born with full us rights.i have also recently helped out with government election campaigns.
a supreme court judge appointed to the us supreme court in the bronx has taken away all [...]

A number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency
In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world economy is not working properly, and was largely responsible for the financial and [...]

“Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment. People lost their savings. People lost their homes. Now, despite the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street, there is a massive effort to make sure that Congress does nothing [...]

So how is this wrenching transformation being put into place? There are four very specific routes being used.
In the rural areas it’s called the Wildlands Project. In the cities it’s called smart growth. In business it’s called Public/Private Partnerships. And in government it’s called stakeholder councils and non-elected boards and regional government.
The Wildlands Project was [...]

I had to create an account to post about what just happened on my campus. I go to the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh… G20, you know. President Obama’s dinner for the delegates happened just off campus, within eyesight of us — usually. When people grouped up by the street that would lead to the Phipps [...]

As a young Libertarian attending Auburn University in the late 80’s and early 90’s, I came up with a new theory which I called The Kindergarten Theory of Government. Memories from my kindergarten class at Forestdale Baptist Church led to the name of this theory.
When in kindergarten, my friend Michael B. and I were pretty [...]

I just received a notice from my mortgage company that my payments are going up because my taxes went up, and I am sick over it. I am sick of the high salaries gov’t, state and local employees are getting. I hate that these morally corrupt souls (it is what I call a person who [...]

The embattled US dollar is expected to come under scrutiny at a summit of developing and industrialized nations following China-led calls to review its role as a reserve currency.
The dollar issue is bound to surface at the two-day meeting in Pittsburgh as US President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of 20 economies [...]

My husband, children and I have lived in Orchards for a little over 3 years now. I always knew there was a Planned Parenthood office by the SR-500W on-ramp as you go south towards Gher Rd. I really never thought much about the office. I thought that they just provided birth control/reproductive health services. I [...]