Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘ Immigrant Workers ’

Americans as Immigrant Workers in America

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Byron King | Category: Financial News

First Congress authorized $700 billion — quite a bit more than the entire Department of Defense budget — for some sort of “troubled asset relief plan (TARP).” (Nobody ever really explained it to my satisfaction. Somehow we were going to throw money at a very big problem and fix it.) Then the money flowed like rainwater to Wall Street and a bunch of banks. Then the banks and Wall Street houses continued to pay their insiders’ big salaries and bonuses.



The Dollar Is Rising… In South Africa, That Is

May 22nd, 2008 | By Sara Nunnally | Category: International Investing

With aging power plants and failing infrastructure, South Africa needs an injection of investment cash into its power sector. And while its economy technically maintains a budget surplus, it’s constantly battling things like unemployment and poverty.