She's the world's wealthiest woman you've never heard of and she's saying something you probably wish you hadn't: "Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, makes case for $2-a-day pay",the Los Angeles Times reports. The Australian mining heiress has a problem. The cost of running a mining operation in Australia cannot compete with Africans willing to work …
Continue reading Coming Soon? Brace for 80% Less Salary or $2-a-Day Pay
The ballots are still being tallied but the electorate has spoken: Barack Obama will become the 44th U.S. President January 20, 2009. As the GOP licks its wounds, what will they point to in hindsight to indicate why they lost the November 2008 presidential election? Sen. John McCain is a decorated war veteran, experienced leader …
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What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.