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Bloice: African Americans and the Economic Crisis
Znet Article, April, 22 2009
Carl Bloice
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Biden was quite out front about it. On the same day the newspapers were trumpeting the news that President Obama had felt a "glimmer of hope" in the economic situation, the Vice-President was telling CNN that we can expect unemployment to increase...
Bloice: States' Budget Crises: Share the Pain and Share the Dough
Znet Article, December, 21 2008
Carl Bloice
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It's probable that by the time this is read, officials in San Jose, Ca. will have eliminated athletic programs from all 11 of the city's high schools. It might not seem like much to some, given the declining economic situation in the country and t...
Bloice: Holiday Gloom in Silicon Valley
Znet Article, December, 07 2008
Carl Bloice
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A couple of days before Thanksgiving one of my downstairs neighbors matter of factly told me he had lost his job. He'd been abruptly laid off by a local information technology startup company. 'They let go so many people I don't know how they are ...
Bloice: Prescription for an 'Ailing' Industry: Take it Over.
Znet Article, November, 20 2008
Carl Bloice
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It is hemorrhaging fast and no end to the bloodletting seems to be insight. No question something has to be done about the auto industry. But what? As usual, the preferred answer depends your vantage point. As usual, when courses of action are pro...
Bloice: Who Woulda Thought?
Znet Article, November, 08 2008
Carl Bloice
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Just a small group of brothers sitting around at my place watching the Oakland Raiders lose again. During a commercial break, the subject of the next week's election came up. "Seriously, would you have ever thought, in your wildest imagination, th...
Bloice: Halloween 2008 - The Horror of Foreclosures
Znet Article, October, 19 2008
Carl Bloice
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As Halloween neared in 2006, the looming mortgage crisis was already apparent and now two years later the horror of it all hasn't gone away. It keeps getting worse. We've spent the last few months talking about the possibility that two million peo...
Bloice: Capitalism Reaches a Crossroads
Znet Article, October, 03 2008
Carl Bloice
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'Even now, someone somewhere is penning a book with a snappy title The End of Capitalism,' columnist Philip Stephens, associate editor of the Financial Times wrote recently. Not to worry, he continued, that's not about to happen. However, eight da...
Bloice: More of Bush? It Could be Worse
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Carl Bloice
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It's not clear whether or how long the Republicans can maintain this pretense. Stretching this stage-managed ABC-TV 'interview' over four episodes will not hide the fact that the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is best kept away from microp...
Bloice: Avoiding the Bleedin' Obvious
Znet Article, September, 07 2008
Carl Bloice
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The opening line of Kevin Phillip's new book says the 'most worrisome thing' about the present economic situation in the U.S. is 'the extent of official understatement and misstatements - the preference for minimizing how many problems there are a...
Bloice: Taking the Train to a Clean Environment, a Sustainable Economy & Jobs
Znet Article, June, 03 2008
Carl Bloice
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There was once a train that ran straight from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica on the coast. I think it was painted red - memory being what it is and being that is was when I was a kid. My family would leave home in South Central and be at the...
Bloice: Hunger, Housing, Heating Oil...and the War
Znet Article, May, 03 2008
Carl Bloice
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The news that Spam (the kind you eat) sales were on the rise should have been enough of a tip-off, but with sales at Starbucks slackening you knew things were getting bad. The number of people applying for food stamps - by people who would never h...
Bloice: An Uncertain Time for Capitalism
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
Don't take it from me. The august Financial Times said it last Saturday: 'It is not just the credit crisis. Popular fears of globalization, discontent with high oil and food prices, rising income inequality within nations - all have contributed to...
Bloice: Basra, Baghdad and Beyond
Znet Article, April, 06 2008
Carl Bloice
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It is the logic of foreign military occupation faced with a popular insurgency that five years after invading Iraq, U.S. and British planes were at week's end bombing Iraqi cities.
Commentator: Obama Race Speech Analysis
Znet Article, March, 23 2008
Black Commentator
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Commentary and analysis of 10 members of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board...
Bloice: More Bad News from the Job Market
Znet Article, February, 09 2008
Carl Bloice
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I had turned in my seat to look down the bar but I couldn't help overhearing the guy behind me when he told his friend, 'I don't want to be mean but I think I am going to buy a foreclosure.' He said there were real deals in another county for cond...
Bloice: The Elite Huddle in Davos
Znet Article, January, 31 2008
Carl Bloice
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When over 2,500 delegates gather at the plush resort town of Davos, Switzerland a week from now, they will have a lot on their plate. They had planned to open the annual meeting of the international elite with discussions of the environment and te...
Bloice: Confronting New and Even Bleaker Job Prospects
Znet Article, January, 14 2008
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
Once again, disturbing statistics have come from the government. Once again, the question being asked is what the figures portend for the country's overall economy.
Bloice: Condi on the Ropes?
Znet Article, November, 28 2007
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
Condoleezza Rice is being set up. The neo-conservatives that surrounded her in the Bush Administration when the Iraq war was plotted and launched are regrouping, distancing themselves from the White House and mobilizing against the
Bloice: When All is Said and Done: It's the Occupation
Znet Article, October, 15 2007
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
The reason there is no progress toward ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and a more general move toward peace in the Middle East is that some people are opposed to it and there is a widespread notion floating ...
Bloice: We're an 'Emerging Market' in Big Trouble
Znet Article, September, 29 2007
Carl Bloice
Bloice's ZSpace page
The term 'emerging mar...
