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...affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests, and hitting closer to home, was the violence associated with the Firestone tire problem. On Aug. 9 the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp. said it was voluntarily recalling 6.5 million Firestone tires owing to safety concerns. If you owned a Ford Explorer, the country's best-selling SUV, you probably had the tires in question. Accidents caused by shreddings had already contributed...
...would Bush be willing to spook the economy he?s about to inherit? For starters, he needs to spread the idea that if things get tight for a while, the problem started before he took office. The last recession occurred during his father?s presidency. He doesn?t want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, ?A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against...
...Jones average was still at 8,500. And for Lindsey, a dedicated supply sider, the remedy for recession just happens to be a tax cut. Most economists insist, however, that tax cuts have very little effect on recessions, largely because their benefits kick in too late to affect the problem. To pre-empt his critics, Bush could redesign his proposal to provide accelerated benefits. One possibility being discussed among his advisers would be to change the formula by which payroll taxes are withheld, as his father did in 1992. That would put extra cash in taxpayer pockets quickly...
...president to decide. Republicans fight sampling on philosophical and ideological grounds, but mostly because they think it costs them political clout and federal money. Democrats have no problem with using a little science if it bumps up accuracy by accounting for people the census workers couldn't find - again, mostly heavily Democratic minorities in big cities who don't answer when the government comes knocking at their door...
...refugee problem...