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http://chrisinmaryville.net/

I firmly believe that the biggest domestic policy error over the past generation has been the no-strings-attached bail out of the mega banks in these United States, and their subsequent designation as “too big to fail” and “too big to jail.” This has

News Link • Global Reported By Chris Menke
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C.A. Lindsay, author

When an unemployed white male electronic engineer in the USA completes an application form today, he must self identify himself as not being Hispanic. In the past, this unscrupulous favoritism applied to females or blacks. However, the bureaucrat h

News Link • Global Reported By Glenn Jacobs
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howstuffworks.com

Jobs are so 20th century. Welcome to the "gig" economy, where more than 20 million Americans are full-time "freelancers," "consultants," "independent contractors" and other code names for not having a "real" job [source: Greenhouse].

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http://www.nytimes.com, By JARED BERNSTEIN

THOUGH yesterday’s employment report revealed a slowly improving job market, the jobless rate is still elevated, at 7.5 percent, with 11.7 million people looking for work, including 4.4 million who have been doing so for at least half a year.

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The Daily Bell

Possible Fed Successor Has Admirers and Foe ... Ms. Yellen is now widely viewed as a logical candidate to succeed the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, when his term ends in January 2014.

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http://www.usnews.com, By Rick Newman

For most of us, the Great Depression is a distant abstraction most relevant as the last time the economy was worse than it has been lately. But for some unhappy Europeans, Depression-style living is a thing of the present.