Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Le Monde , the Ministers of Finances of the Euro Zone have issued strong statements regarding corporate executives compensations, calling them “scandalous” and they are looking at ways to curb such excesses.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of The Eurogroup (an emanation of the Euro zone for coordination of different countries [...]
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Filed under: Economic News, Economy, In The News, International, Political News, World News
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Darrell Prows
It’s a funny old economy that we live under. Sometimes to find out how it’s working you have to look at disparate reports, and then do a bunch of extrapolating. Here are a couple of stunning little pieces that I ran across yesterday.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks worldwide Wednesday announced a surprise plan [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a measure to establish a federal ban on phthalates in children’s toys on Thursday. The bill is modeled after California’s landmark ban on phthalates.
Phthalates are chemicals that added to common plastic products to make them soft and pliable and they can be found in a variety of children’s toys and childcare products that [...]
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