New Orleans Desperate to hold onto power with national elections coming in 2013 and beset by crises over coal, telecom, and slowing growth, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced modifications in foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, potentially paving the way for Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro, and other multi-national companies to enter the growing Indian …
Month: September 2012
The Destruction of Citizen Wealth
New Orleans It is hard to miss the markers of the precipitous slide of US citizen wealth flowing from the Great Recession. New figures from the Census Bureau indicate another dive for the 4th straight year (obviously starting in 2007 in the Bush era). We now stand a hair above $50,000 in median household …
Two-Tiered Teacher Pay and Anti-Unionism Are Charter School Issues
New Orleans In the wake of the Chicago teachers’ strike there is a lot of talk about the real issues provoking the strike. The Times seems them as trivial. There’s a lot of ink pitting it as a personality problem between the prickly and notoriously difficult Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the every bit his equal, …