Monday, November 17 2008

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Iraq agrees to U.S. troop withdrawal by 2011

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FDA opens safety offices in China

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Bailout may exclude minorities

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7.5-magnitude quake strikes eastern Indonesia

"They were talking about installing a siren system in Sumatra and Java where there are major risks for tsunami activity."
--Stuart Weinstein on the tsunami warming system

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Debtor Nation: How we got here

"Americans are at the bottom of the developed world in how much we save."
--Ronald Wilcox on American debt

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The week ahead for the economy

"These economies are inherently weaker because they have lots of that good regulation that folks on the left think will cure America."
Peter Morici on the European economic recession

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Congress mulls an auto bailout

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Bailout: Who profits?

"The actual work is being contracted out to private companies -- to Wall Street banks, to banks like Bank of New York, Mellon. In many cases these are the companies that are at the heart of the crisis itself."
--Naomi Klein on the similarities between the economic bailout and the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority

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L.A. Tea Fire: Firefighters catching a break

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A prison briefing for Obama

"Instead of planning for the prison, how about some money for Head Start? How about some money to keep families together?"
--Ted Conover on what prisoners want in prison reform

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Ethical subprime mortgages

"They say 'We have a double bottom line.' They are concerned about the community and concerned about making profits."
--Daniel Gross on ethical subprime lending

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