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  • Death and taxes

    Do tax cuts plus war equal the right medicine for an ailing economy?
  • Dodging the war issue, again

    Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry blistered the Bush administration in a speech Thursday -- but like many Democrats, he shied away from Iraq.
  • So long, Saddam?

    As war looms, Iraqis have started doing the unthinkable: Criticizing Saddam Hussein.
  • A haunting silence

    While the White House risks the horrors of war, the Senate is paralyzed, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
  • Pink slip nightmare

    A Kodak employee waits for the dreaded envelope: Fat means fired, thin means spared. What will it be?
  • Iraq

    Chemical weapons, civil war and Arab rage could turn an invasion into a disaster.
  • The economy

    If Bush's radical tax cuts are approved, and spending continues to soar, the U.S. could be headed toward Japanese-style stagnation -- or worse.
  • Voodoo economics: The sequel

    Bush's vast tax cut will fatten the piggies in their starched white shirts and create huge deficits. But the spineless Democrats don't have the will to stop it.
  • Bush's dividend payoff

    The president's tax plan offers $300 billion for a handful of plutocrats, but pennies for the rest of us.
  • How the pols stole Christmas

    Washington has something special in store for the jobless this holiday season -- cuts in unemployment insurance.
  • Too little, too late?

    With the Iraq vote behind them, Democrats are desperately trying to shift the public's focus to the staggering economy. But time is running out.
  • Clueless George

    Disappearing jobs, exploding deficits, rising bankruptcies. And the Bush economic plan? Um, there isn't one.
  • In greed we trusted

    Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme?
  • Bush has a bridge he wants to sell you -- again

    Shifty logic, misinformation, cheap panaceas -- the White House marketing plan for Iraq looks a lot like the pitch for last year's tax cuts.
  • The return of voodoo economics

    The policies once blasted by the president's father have become the centerpiece of the current administration's economic policy.
  • Herr Schroeder can't catch a break

    Gerhard Schroeder was seen as Germany's Bill Clinton -- media wise, progressive and practical. Today, mired in an enigmatic reelection campaign, only his wife defends him.
  • Baseball Economics for Dummies

    The players get it. The big-market owners get it. So why do the small-market owners seem so dense?
  • Accounting scandal at Mother Earth, Inc.

    Put that rainforest on your spreadsheet and suddenly the global economy looks different, by trillions of dollars, a new study shows.
  • Wacko in Waco

    At their summer camp economic summit, Bushians find comfort by withdrawing from a confusing, complicated and unfriendly world.
  • Bush's goal: Defy gravity

    People doubt he can manage the economy and less than half think he should be reelected. And yet his approval ratings are sky-high.
  • How to fix a broken economy

    Judging by his performance to date, President Bush can use all the help he can get. Here are some expert suggestions.
  • In Gaza, blame turns toward Arafat

    Economic chaos -- and a looming humanitarian crisis -- undermine both the Palestinian Authority and the intifada.
  • Death in the desert

    Mexican migrants are dying at record rates as they try to cross treacherous desert into Arizona. Critics blame the U.S. government -- and they're preparing to sue.
  • Interview with Joseph Stiglitz

    The winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics talks with Damien Cave about his book "Globalization and Its Discontents," the WorldCom scandal, the mistakes of the IMF and more.
  • Bush's terrorism smokescreen

    The president is using America's new war to distract us from his disastrous economic policies.
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