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Entries Tagged ‘Economy’

The Financial New World Order: Towards a Global Currency and World Government

Global Research
April 6, 2009
By Andrew G. Marshall
Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar’s role as the world reserve currency. Point 19 of the communiqué released by the G20 at the end of the Summit stated, “We have agreed to support [...]

Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment as Underemployment Surges

Bloomberg
April 6, 2009
By Matthew Benjamin
April 6 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Ramelo gave up searching for work in January to return to school, two months after he was laid off as a San Francisco election clerk. Antonio Poe is struggling to get by doing part-time landscaping in Greensboro, North Carolina, after losing his job as an electrician.
While [...]

Flint, MI, Considers Shutting Down Quadrants of City

Kristin Longley
The Flint Journal
March 17, 2009
FLINT, Michigan — Look in any direction from Bianca Bates’ north Flint home, and you’ll see graffiti-covered siding, boarded-up windows and overgrown lots.
About half of the homes on her block are burned out or vacant magnets for drug dealers and squatters. It isn’t where she thought she’d end up, but [...]