William Greider
William Greider
William Harold Greider is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics...
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CountryUnited States of America
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A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.
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The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade.
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Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world.
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The far more threatening problem is elsewhere - shrinking pensions, collapsed personal savings and soaring costs for health insurance.
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The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.
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Efficiency obliterates identity
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
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If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
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Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
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Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
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The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.