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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

Tags: transportation, economic issues, bailouts, automotive industry

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

Tags: Barack Obama, politics, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, deregulation, economic issues, free trade agreements

The G20 Could Repay Bailout by Doing Wonders for the Environmentnew

There are several pieces missing from the current G20 consensus. Above all is the necessity of linking any solution to the current economic emergency to the even larger global environmental crisis.

NOW Magazine | Alice Klein | 11-24-2008 | Economy

Tags: environment, economic issues, Stimulus, G20, global finance

Obama's Green Jobs Program Could Leave Canadian Entrepreneurs Out of the Loopnew

If Barack Obama actually does use the financial crisis to sink cash into eco industries, Canada will have squandered a golden opportunity to share the gains.

NOW Magazine | Andrew Cash | 11-17-2008 | Economy

Tags: Canada, environment, green jobs, economic issues, Stimulus