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21st November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Nancy Pelosi’

Welcome to the Next Great Depression

By Charley James • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Business
Buddy, can you spare a Prozac? Oh, wait. This kind of depression won’t be cured with a pill. And a dime doesn’t buy as much today as it did in 1930.
Watching the House vote on a package to rescue the economy fall apart this afternoon was as traumatic as seeing Wall St. brokers leaping from [...]



Tears of…

By Denis Campbell • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Features
… what, no one can put it into words. I watched at midnight here in the UK as Senator Hillary Clinton, in the most magnanimous of unifying gestures, stopped the vote count by asking the convention to suspend its rules, ensure all of the ballots are counted and accept her floor nomination of Barack Obama [...]



The (42, 4 and 1.20) Per Cent Solution

By Denis Campbell • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Features
Even Sherlock Holmes would have difficulty solving this one. Bad news comes in bunches for Labour PM Gordon Brown. Like the Dutch boy with his fingers in the dyke, one could understand if electrified fences suddenly circled Number 10 Downing Street. The latest series of crises was spurred by Labour’s recent WIN extending the amount [...]