The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
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Two Takes on Acorn
Here are two takes on the Acorn scandal/bashing—from the Yes Men (in the Washington Post) and from Bill
The G20 Must Wake America Up
A column from today's Guardian by Kevin Gallagher, a research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute
HR Manager Beaten to Death by Angry Workers
From CNN/Asia. Yikes! By Harmeet Shah Singh | Wednesday, September 23 2009 NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Angry workers beat to
The Staley Lockout (Thad Williamson)
Second in a series of blog posts by former D&S collective member Thad Williamson, who is teaching a
Energy Xtremism (Michael Klare)
From TomDispatch, with intro from Tom Engelhardt: Talk about roller-coaster rides: the price of a barrel of crude oil,
Emphasis on Growth Is Called Misguided
In today's NYT business section; reports on the study Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have put out, sponsored
FDIC May Seek Bailout for Failed Banks
Banks large and small continue to drop like flies. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) was set up in the
Mankiw on Statins
Orthodox economist Greg Mankiw weighed in on the health-care debate in Sunday's New York Times, with a
Bank of America's Awesome Pecans
An amusing item from New York Magazine's Daily Intel blog (though their spin on it is needlessly crude)
Notre Dame to Dissolve Heterodox Econ. Dept.?
Here is a pretty shocking story—the University of Notre Dame is planning to dissolve its department of Economics and
The Populist Moment
This is the first in a series of blog posts by former D&S collective member Thad Williamson, who
Obama vs. the Lobbyists (TomDispatch)
From Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch; a link to Andy Kroll's article follows: Congressman Joe ("You lie!"