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Bush?s bearishness may also reflect the influence of his chief economic adviser Larry Lindsey. The former Federal Reserve governor has been sour for so long on the economy?s prospects that he cashed out all his stocks in 1997, when the Dow Jones average was still at 8,500...
We can't afford not to do it. This has been Bush's way of softening the fiscal ground ever since the fall. The economy is slowing down. Consumer confidence is fading, the "wealth effect" of the rising stock markets is a pleasant memory, and the best way to head...
"Our goal is for people to find out the conditions, and start boycotting, " Denvir said. "Only when people do that, and it starts hitting the pockets of these companies will they really clean up their act."
The setting: any airport, U.S.A. The victims: you and your laptop. Action! You put your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking...
Drug trafficking is hardly new to Haiti. But in the past few years, say U.S. officials, the cocaine cruising through the country has leaped from less than 5% of the total bound for the U.S. to more than 15%--amounting to almost six tons a month. When U.S. forces entered...