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September 2008

Economy: $700 billion Government Bailout

In case you haven’t heard about it yet (since all news media sources are talking about it), the Bush administration proposed a $700 billion government bailout to buy bad mortgage debt and would be run directly by the Treasury Department. What the government purchases and what time it does would be by the government’s own [...]

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The Privatization of Water

Last year, I learned more about the issue of privatization of water, in which corporations are bottling a natural resource for a profit. The water bottle industry is worth billions of dollars. Not only does the bottled water industry (some companies such as Dasani and Aquafina) make profits from bottling tap and purified water, but [...]

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Food, Inc.

The entertainment company Participant Media is one I stumbled upon a couple weeks ago in search (out of boredom) for some internships… I couldn’t actually apply for any of them due to school/location but I went on their website and realized Participant Media is the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, The Kite Runner, and many [...]

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Possibly making a comeback, in a new and different form. Changes to come…

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