Economy

Details: Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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The GOP has long advocated the trickle-down mantra, which suggests that by providing tax breaks and other benefits to the wealthy, prosperity will eventually "trickle down" to the rest of the population.

Details: Written by: David Suzuki and Ian Hanington

Economic Reality Check: Climate Change Costs Big Bucks

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. Putting aside the absurdity of prioritizing a human-created and adaptable tool like the economy over caring for everything that allows us to survive and be healthy, let’s take a look at the economic reality...

Details: Written by: Dan Furst

The dire events of 2007-2011, strange as they look from the usual economic perspective of policies and numbers, make perfect sense within the context of history and astrology. The financial calamity of the early 21st century, and the climate of fraud and folly that made it possible, are exactly what we could expect at the end of the Piscean Age.

Details: Written by: John Robbins

Chocolate isn't the only American staple produced by slaves. On some Ivory Coast farms, child slaves harvest coffee beans as well as the cacao pods that yield cocoa beans. More than 7,000 tons of Ivory Coast coffee arrive in the U.S. each year...

Details: Written by: Ronald Trostle

Food Spikes

Food prices jumped in 2010-11, the second price spike within 3 years. Longer term financial, agricultural, and demographic trends, exacerbated by short-term production shortfalls, set up conditions for the increases.

Details: Written by: InnerSelf Staff

Europe Woman Riding Beast

PIGS is short for Portugal, Ireland and Italy, Greece, and Spain. With Italy at this moment under fire, Greece and the others look downright stable. The big question is pending now is will the Euro survive and if not want, what effect it will have in the US if it collapses.

Details: Written by: Robert Reich

Herman Cain’s bizarre 9-9-9 plan would replace much of the current tax code with a 9 percent individual income tax and a 9 percent sales tax. He calls it a “flat tax.” The flat tax is a fraud. It raises taxes on the poor and lowers them on the rich.

Details: Written by: Norman E. Rosenthal

Setting aside the benefits to your health, how much might you (and society at large) save financially on healthcare by regular practice of Transcendental Meditation? The question takes on urgency in these times of spiraling health costs, and fortunately it has been studied.