Chief executive or business-basher?

Financial Times - To US companies and business leaders, Barack Obama remains, despite the scrutiny to which he was subjected during his long slog to this week’s triumph, an enigma. Who is the new president? Is he the crisp non-ideological technocrat who ran a flawless campaign as surely as an up-and-coming star [...]

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Detroit Shock Doctrine

Nation - Bloomberg reports that a General Motors failure would cost the federal government $200 billion. And the Center for Automotive Research concludes that if the Big Three fail, it will mean the loss of 3 million jobs in the first year of collapse.

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Racism and Lewis Hamilton

New Statesman - It’s hard to think of any racists who aren’t pathetic physical and mental specimens, proving beyond doubt that the idea of white supremacy is bogus.

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