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Radio: Jim Willie- Under pressure- US economic collapse

Posted by smeddum on August 19, 2009

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Niall Ferguson compares US to Japan’s “lost decade”

Posted by smeddum on November 18, 2008

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Past the tipping point

Posted by smeddum on July 5, 2008

 

Service workers watch gratuities shrivel during economic woes    The Journal Gazette

LISA CORNWELL
Associated Press

CINCINNATI – At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati’s west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift.

Those tips make up the majority of her income, but they’ve been dwindling for months amid rising gas prices and other economic woes. Right now, her weekly income from tips is down about 25 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

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