| Sep 26, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe unregulated energy hucksters behind the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago created an array of dummy financial funds to evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, they dubbed these phony funds names like Chewco and JEDI. While...
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| Sep 19, 2011 | Economy / BusinessAfter a bubble economy burst, the stock market collapsed. Main street businesses began to fold and jobs soon vanished. Millions of job seekers remained unemployed as the months turned into years. Both government and personal debt soared. The best economic minds in...
| | Economy / BusinessAcross the country, in every region and at companies large and small, unemployed people are being told they are ineligible to apply for vacancies. Everyone knows that it’s illegal to discriminate in hiring when it comes to factors like race, gender, disability...
| | Economy / BusinessIt’s bedtime, children. Get on your jammies, scootch under the covers, and I’ll tell you a “Perry Tale.” In this one, Prince Rick is trying to make it to the big White House in Washington. It’s a strange quest, because he calls the...
| Sep 12, 2011 | Economy / BusinessLast month Target fired Tashawna Green — but not for being bad at her job. They fired her, she says, for trying to make her job better. Green, a 21-year-old single mom, was the most public supporter of a campaign to unionize the workers at her Long Island, New York...
