Archive for June 19th, 2008

  • Enron II

    TheTrucker.com - America’s Trucking Newspaper
    The group told the lawmakers that in May, unemployment climbed again to 5.5 percent, the highest one-month spike in 22 years; many thousands more employees were laid off; commercial air service to 100 cities was completely eliminated or will be by year-end; businesses closed because they cannot begin to raise [...]

  • It’s all in the tense, you see.

    Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back - NYTimes.com
    There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. The Bush administration has said that [...]