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Posts tagged ‘infrastructure’
Robert Pollin: Economic Outlook for 2013
by The Editors, posted on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 at 10:34 pmFinancialization and the World Economy
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2012 at 7:36 pmGerald Epstein, Political Economy Research Institute, and Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Financialization of the economy has been developing since the late 19th century and is now at historic Levels
Robert Reich on the Romney-Ryan Economic Plan
by n0madic, posted on Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 7:22 pmHotter today, a little rain, and…WHAT?
by Downtowner, posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 at 9:37 pmI’ve been following the drought, and the multiple heat waves, and since it’s Wednesday, that means I am of course awaiting tomorrow morning’s weekly update to the drought monitor. We’ve had a little rain here, so perhaps the situation has improved? I hope so, but do understand there are vast swaths of the country that have not had as much rain as us and even here the grass is still brown.
Anyway, I saw a link to a NY Times story about the drought and heat, specifically their impact on infrastructure, and thought I’d check that out. The piece starts out with a bit about a jet sinking into the tarmac at an airport, and I admit I wasn’t paying much attention to which city that happened in, skimming, skimming, and then I saw something a little closer to home, that made me say out loud, ok out loud very loudly, “WHAT?”
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