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The Economy the Internet Birthed: How High Tech Made it Tougher to Land a Job

On By The Social CriticIn Economics & Globalization, Technology & ScienceLeave a comment

It is a presidential election year and by all counts the race is close. There is no question the post-recession recovery has been anemic at best. To call it a recovery is a stretch and the threat of a double-dip recession lingers. Whether anyone can really turn this lackluster economy around is anyone's guess. Talk …

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What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order

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We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.