Category: Business
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Is Wal-Mart Destroying America?
When we buy stuff made by people working for slave labor wages in China, we destroy good paying American jobs and we make America poorer. This is a point that I have tried to make over and over.
Wal-Mart often tells one thing to the public and then does another thing in private.
Was the Spanish bank bailout botched?
The big economies of Spain, Italy and even France are now looking increasingly shaky.
Spain’s problems are probably the most acute; the cost of borrowing is around seven per cent for Madrid at the moment and that is a psychologically important level as it is the level at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal needed international financial assistance.
Stocks Higher on Wall Street
Positive economic data spurs a rise in the stock indexes
Stocks rose on Thursday December 22nd putting the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index on the cusp of finishing out the year higher as another decline in jobless claims pointed to further improvement in the labor market.