On AlterNet: global economy
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "global economy"
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. July 15, 2009.
Will it all end in Iraq not with a bang, but with an oil gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers a hint of Iraq's fate.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. February 24, 2009.
Governments across the planet are preparing for a surge of violent protests from economic upheaval. Wars may follow.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 24, 2009.
In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next.
John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research. February 15, 2009.
We need to fill the biggest hole in the current global response to the deepening recession: the lack of coordinated international fiscal policy.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. February 6, 2009.
Governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with the same bad ideas will not survive to tell the tale.
Eric Le Boucher, Le Monde. March 20, 2008.
The American growth model will have to change.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 12, 2008.
We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.
Naomi Klein, Los Angeles Times. November 22, 2007.
The jolts of global economics blast people out of the picture.
Stephen Lerner, AlterNet. May 1, 2007.
Ironically, globalization is creating the greatest opportunity to organize global unions among the poorest and least-skilled workers employed in an economy dominated by giant corporations.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. December 13, 2006.
China may be violating trade agreements, but the savings-poor U.S. lacks the power to do anything about it.
