By Kim on April 21, 2010
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
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By Brian on April 9, 2009
The night before last, deep in the night I was listening to the BBC I think it would have been. There was a news item saying that Iceland was trying to persuade the world to locate all its large computer [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy |
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