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Health Insurance for Musicians? - An Innovative Austin Program
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
Austin enjoys the self-promoted but well-deserved reputation as live music capital of the world. In recent years, the city has decided to put its money where its mouth is to ensure that it stays that ...
Interest Rates and the Credit Crunch
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
In Greek mythology, the hydra was a beast that, when one of its many heads were severed, would grow new heads in their place. The sub-prime mortgage crisis has developed in a similar fashion, initially ...
Current Issues with the Global Economy
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
Though the housing bubble deflated about two years ago, its true effects are only now beginning to emerge. In late 2006, when the economy first began to show signs of weakness in the housing market, ...
Why the Fed is Having Less Influence over Mortgage Interest Rates
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
In the past when the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate it translated into lower mortgage interest rates for home buyers. This was a convenient way for the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy during ...
Subprime Woes Reach New Heights
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
As the sub-prime mortgage crisis continues to unfold, new figures emerge from the Mortgage Banker's Association: A record .83. That means that, in three months, one out of one hundred homeowners have been foreclosed on. ...
Bear Stearns and the Free Market
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
The recent government-sponsored bailout of Bear Stearns, one of the top five lenders in the United States, has shocked traders and left investors cold. Despite the chilly reaction on Wall Street, secretly many are breathing ...
A Woman's Voice
By Bobbi Miller-Moro · 16 years ago
Benazir Bhutto’s Fight for Democracy
"Her voice was ever low, gentle and soft—an excellent thing in woman." – King Lear.
In history, a women’s voice has been revered in poetry and song. "It is a ...
The Treaty of Ryswick 1697
By Edrys Erisnor · 16 years ago
The Treaty of Ryswick came about as the concluding chapter to the European ‘War of Grand Alliance’. The war pitted France on one hand to a grand alliance of four powers, namely England, Spain, The ...
What’s the story with... Disappearing?
By Marissa Duffy · 16 years ago
Bemusement turned to disbelief this week as the tale of "presumed dead" canoeist John Darwin unravelled in the most dramatic fashion. Darwin was launched into the spotlight last Saturday as a missing man from Hartlepool ...
Dogged! Pluto Stripped of Planetary Status
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Christine Lavin’s folk albums have been enjoyed in our house since before my oldest child was born. Of course, if you aren't familiar with the singer, you may well wonder why her name opens an ...
Subprime Woes: Are We Out of the Woods Yet?
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
In the last week, many encouraging signs have been on the economic radar: The Bush administration has stated that a consensus has been reached about the impending $145 billion economic stimulus package, the Federal Reserve ...
US Recession Inevitable?
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
As the sub-prime mortgage scandal continues to play out badly for many US companies, more and more questions have been raised as to whether the impact of a slowdown in one area will translate into ...
Essay Contest: Freeing Freedom of Expression
By Lindee Rochelle · 16 years ago
Annual writers’ competition invites exploration of First Amendment.
Freedom of speech: what works, what doesn’t work and when do we take our liberties too far? Featuring a provocative election year issue, "Freeing Freedom of Expression," ...
Effects of the UK Smoking Ban
By Chris Tyrrell · 16 years ago
In July of 2007, England banned smoking in public places with the "Smoke Free England" campaign. Second hand smoke causes numerous diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, and SIDS. It really is unfair to ...
Through the Looking Glass: Mirror Neurons and Moral Nonsense
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Scanning the past week's news, one gets the distinct impression there has been an unusually high number of "man's inhumanity to man" stories. Darfur, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel. Kidnapped children, boys arrested for planning an attack ...
Sluggish Fed, Why Are You So Sluggish?
By Dane Smith · 16 years ago
In recent months, fallout from the sub-prime mortgage scandal has been estimated in the hundreds of billions, up from figures of $100 billion maximum from the Federal Reserve only three months ago. While the Fed ...
Columbine High School Shooting
By Mario Palias · 16 years ago
To date, the columbine school shooting is one of the worst school shootings in the history of the United States. The shooting took place on April 20th, 1999 at the Columbine High School in Colorado. ...
Being Prepared for an Attack with Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Craig Elliott · 17 years ago
The truth is that terrorism isn't supposed to be predictable. By inflicting the maximum amount of damage to the maximum amount of people, terrorists win their game. So when we talk about being prepared for ...
Becoming Compliant with the National Incident Management System
By Craig Elliott · 17 years ago
Often in this new world of fears about terrorist attacks, the government creates systems of rules and regulations that most of us are unaware of. This is probably the case with the National Incident Management ...
Anhydrous Ammonia: A Dangerous and Widely Used Gas
By Craig Elliott · 17 years ago
In these days of heightened fears about our safety in relation to terrorists, it's only natural that we begin to look for ways that we might be threatened. While it might seem reasonable to look ...