24 November 2009
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/pers-n24.shtml
The Obama administration has flatly rejected appeals for the federal government to take any direct action to create jobs and alleviate the mounting toll of unemployment in the United States. Obama reiterated this position in his Saturday radio/Internet address, and it was echoed by top aides in media interviews over the weekend.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal, “There are two engines to our economic message, two ways to generate jobs. One is small business, the second is energy.” He implicitly rejected any suggestion of direct government hiring for public works projects in favor of tax credits or eased lending terms for private, profit-making businesses.
By Markus Salzmann
24 November 2009
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/euro-n24.shtml
Recent reports indicate that the economies of many central and eastern European states are headed for new shocks. Despite attempts to conjure up optimism over the prospects for these countries, institutions such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are warning of the danger of further economic decline in the region, which would have serious consequences for Europe as a whole.
“The consequences of the world economic crisis will burden this region more than the rest of the world in coming years,” declared the chief economist of the EBRD, Erik Berglöf, speaking on the fringes of a conference held by the Austrian Central Bank in Vienna last week.
Minggu, 22 November 2009 | 03:29 WIB
Simon Saragih
http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/11/22/03292239/baut.ri.melenceng.dari.mur.globalisasi
Mudah-mudahan semua keterangan di bawah ini tidak benar adanya. Akan tetapi, tanpa penelitian mendalam pun rakyat sudah merasakan ada banyak hal yang tidak benar dalam perjalanan bangsa ini. Banyak sekali faktor yang menunjukkan Indonesia tidak menyesuaikan diri dengan tekstur mur-mur globalisasi sehingga membuat Indonesia tak berputar sesuai dengan irama globalisasi itu.
Salah satu contoh untuk memudahkan pemahaman adalah konteks pembangunan China, yang tidak kunjung menggugah teknokrat dalam menyusun strategi pembangunan. Setelah sukses mereformasi sektor pertanian, di mana para petani bebas menanam dan menabung sendiri hasil sektor pertaniannya, para petani China menjadi sumber daya beli.
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Rabu, 18 November 2009 | 03:43 WIB
http://cetak.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/11/18/03431571/pedagang.pasar.tradisional.terancam
Jakarta, Kompas – Eksistensi para pedagang pasar tradisional terus terancam. Hampir tiap minggu ada pasar tradisional yang terbakar, tanpa ada penyelidikan lebih lanjut tentang penyebab kebakaran itu.
Demikian disampaikan Ketua Umum Asosiasi Pedagang Pasar Indonesia (APPSI) Prabowo Subianto dalam Rapat Dengar Pendapat dengan Komisi VI DPR di Jakarta, Selasa (17/11) malam.
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By Stephen Linaweaver
Published November 02, 2009
http://greenbiz.com/blog/2009/11/02/go-slow-stay-low-mantra-greener-economy
In another life, I was an educator for Save the Bay in Oakland, Calif.
With the humdrum of finance, technology, and transportation whirring around and above us, we spent our days with scores of middle schoolers, teaching them to paddle canoes and absorb the natural world around them for the first time. The most difficult part was to teach them to get into, and out of, the canoes without tipping them.
“Go slow, stay low” was the mantra. It worked for most, but not for all. Inevitably there would be a few life vest-wearing, mud-covered students waist high in the waters of the bay before class was over.
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