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This Bailout's a Bomb -- There's No Worse Industry Than Autonew
What we really need is investment in local infrastructure for sunrise industries that make the things we need, thereby shifting the focus from mobility of goods to local provision and access. By contrast, auto is a sunset industry from the horse-and-buggy age.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-09-2009 |
Economy
The Economic Mess Obama's Inheriting Comes from Clinton, Not Bushnew
If truth be known, Bush inherited, as Obama will soon, deregulated financial, agricultural, trade and social policies. Put in place by Bill Clinton and Al Gore, these were the achievement of the 1990s -- a period that needs to be understood not, as greens once hoped, as the "turnaround decade," but as the "regression decade."
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-24-2008 |
Economy
World Bank Prophetsnew
After years of starving poor nations, the World Bank now wants to pay farmers to protect ecosystem.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-05-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Growth Hormonenew
Until global warming, the hidden cost of the growth-is-good myth was only clear to party-pooper ecologists.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
05-11-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Slaves to Canada's Minimum Wagenew
Sure, hike the paycheck, but social benefit add-ons work faster to change lives.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-30-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Free Trade's Kimchee Food Fightnew
South Korea's countryside is steeped in peasant traditions that could be swallowed by U.S. trade pact.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-20-2006 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
From Field To Prophetnew
John Kenneth Galbraith learned his Canuck-style radical economics down on the farm.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
05-11-2006 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Breaking the Trancenew
Economic guru David Korten's money is on local business as corporations are downed by disasters.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-07-2005 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
