| February 1 |
- Why Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is an act of surrender
- In the annals of Silicon Valley culture, this merger fight is a definite biggie. But everyone knows Steve Ballmer's real target is Google.
- The omnivore's new dilemma
- Cheap corn made America fat. So what's expensive corn going to do?
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| February 4 |
- Salesgenie's Super Bowl success
- CEO-authored advertisements make fun of billions of Indians and Chinese. A job well done.
- The economics of Barack Obama
- Left-libertarian? Republican-lite? And what does his choice of economic advisors tell us?
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| February 5 |
- The bike light that saved the world
- Making every photon count: The Ixon IQ LED bike lamp is a glimpse at techno-utopia
- McCain continues war on capitalism
- The presidential candidate just can't resist dragging the holiest Republican values through the mud
- Super Recession Tuesday
- Wall Street reels at the latest numbers on the economy. But have no fear: Every candidate has a rescue plan
- Lou Dobbs vs. La Raza
- Does featuring Minutemen on his show make Dobbs a purveyor of hate speech? And should the man be surprised that some critics call him a bigot?
- It's the economy, stupid, stupid, stupid
- Nine out of ten Democrats agree: The economy is in big trouble
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| February 6 |
- Recession medicine
- The coming U.S. downturn may be a doozy. But cures for what ails us aren't supposed to taste good.
- Hillary Clinton: The Asian-American choice
- Barack Obama may be the "diverse" candidate, but in California, his voters came in just two colors: black and white.
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| February 7 |
- The upside to peak fertilizer
- Synthetic production of nitrogen consumes oodles of energy. Organic never looked so good
- Salesgenie apologizes to Chinese, ignores Indians
- The New York Times reports that the Chinese panda ad has been withdrawn, to the accompaniment of a classic non-apology apology.
- Obama, Clinton and the working class
- In Washington state, the biggest labor union just endorsed Obama. But working-class voters are breaking for Clinton. Why?
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| February 8 |
- A cellphone in every pocket
- Very soon, half the humans on the planet will own a mobile phone. What comes next?
- What will YOU do with your fiscal stimulus check?
- Go out and buy a new TV, to save the economy? Or squirrel the money away, to save yourself?
- California knows how to regulate
- A short history of Californian efforts to stop air pollution, with a cameo by Ronald Reagan.
- Salon readers refuse to go on spending spree
- When their check comes in, they'll be banking it or paying down debt. Among other things.
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| February 19 |
- The most left-wing president since Nixon?
- Why the right wing fears a possible President Obama: His political honeymoon would be so charmed he might actually get things done.
- Don't be happy. Worry
- Did too much optimism get Wall Street in trouble?
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| February 20 |
- The Texas Ohio NAFTA two-step
- Free trade doesn't play well with Ohioans. But NAFTA may be popular in southern Texas. What's a politician campaigning in both states to do?
- How much millet can a cellphone buy?
- In Niger, mobile phones can keep a family fed during a food crisis. In the U.S. we can't be bothered even to throw them away.
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| February 21 |
- Mohammad Yunus visits Jackson Heights
- How is the United States like Bangladesh? Let us count the ways...
- Prehistoric hurricane spotting
- It was a dark and stormy night. 3000 years ago. We think. Maybe
- Viva Obama!
- Does the path to winning the Latino vote in Texas lead through a mariachi band?
- Real and/or unreal: The economy is hurting
- While the candidates for president slug it out, the news from Main Street and Wall Street just keeps getting worse
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| February 22 |
- Who owns that offshore sucking sound?
- Accenture gets a patent for a "rapid transfer of knowledge" technique. Don't expect rich country workers to applaud
- Cooking the solar-power books
- From Botswana to Berkeley, calculating the cost-benefit value of harnessing the sun calls for a new kind of accounting.
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| February 25 |
- Clinton and Obama's NAFTA showdown
- In Ohio, no points are awarded for a nuanced position on free trade.
- William Kristol's bad grade in economics
- The new New York Times pundit tries to punk Michelle Obama, but the one-time Harvard teaching fellow ends up reprimanded by a former student.
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| February 26 |
- Are we too gloomy about the economy?
- Ken Fisher, the 271st richest man in America, says not to worry. Unless you happened to follow his stock picking recommendations from one year ago
- "The dangerous protectionism of Barack Obama"
- Is his Patriot Employer Act "idiotic" pandering? Or is it how you win an election in Ohio?
- Breadbasket inflation
- Wheat prices are out of control. Corn and soybeans and rice, too. Is this good or bad news for the biotech industry, and Africa?
- "My uncle was laid off from that American Standard plant"
- A reader's tale of globalization, Ohio, and a shuttered toilet bowl factory
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| February 27 |
- The rhetoric of slavery and climate change
- Then: Abolition would wreak havoc on the economy of the South. Now: Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would punish all Americans.
- Debating NAFTA, with nuance
- Even with Tim Russert nipping at their ankles, Obama and Clinton managed to talk some sense about trade
- The new fertilizer report is here!
- Potash production predictions -- could agricultural economics get any more exciting?
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| February 28 |
- African recessions lead to democratic concessions
- How bad weather contributes to the toppling of tyrants
- Conspiracy theory in the frozen North
- Flooded villages in Alaska, record grain harvests in Finland. Who's to blame? How 'bout Exxon?
- Who do you believe: Bush, or Obama?
- The president says the U.S. isn't headed towards a recession. The candidate disagrees. As part of his answer, Ben Bernanke quotes Leo Tolstoy
- Canada's ferocious NAFTA growl
- Don't worry your head about whether Obama lied about the free trade agreement. The real story is a threat by that petro-state up north to turn off the oil spigot.
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| February 29 |
- Will loose lips sink anti-NAFTA ships?
- Canada's CTV says Obama's economic advisor Austan Goolsbee told a Canadian official not to worry about Obama's "rhetoric."
- When guano imperialists ruled the earth
- The Industrial Revolution spelled doom for Peru's finest organic fertilizer. But bird dung will fly again!
- Don't press the Wikipedia delete button
- Novelist Nicholson Baker defends the online obscure, just as he once fought to save card catalogs
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