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CNBC's reaction is colored by its stressed-out day trader's focus on the short term. When ordinary people think about the economy, they think about jobs, college, retirement. Sure, the stock market affects them in the long run - but so do job security and the threat of getting wiped out by health-care bills. When CNBC considers the economy, it means Wall Street's numbers that day, that hour, that minute. CNBC may pay lip service to the long term, but it has the time horizon of a fruit...
...they become threatened. People make extensive plans for Christmas, for vacations, weddings and holidays, but they put very little planning into their own career, which is a family's greatest investment. So they are not prepared financially and emotionally for the loss of steady income." And under that threat, she says, people are more likely to resort to dishonesty to save their livelihood. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...short films constructed around the Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve daily life, to more broadly pedantic lectures on the nascent, but nevertheless looming threat of totalitarianism from the East.“They’re entertaining and witty, and they offer really interesting examples of effective public communication,” Schulberg says. “Examples that can both inspire and educate their audiences at the same time.” Schulberg first...
Organized Crime and its Threat to Security: Tackling a Disturbing Consequence of Drug Control United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 16 pages...
...drug business has become a security threat: Drug traffickers use their war chests to attack vulnerable countries through business acquisitions, corruption and violence. These processes inevitably converge, as at stake is more than just money laundering and intimidation: drug cartels buy more than real estate, banks and business. They buy elections, candidates and parties. In a word, they buy power. (Read "Mexico's Drug War Takes to the Barricades...