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The bursting of the American housing bubbleA speculative bubble can relate to assets that are real (property, land, etc.) or financial (shares, etc.) ; it manifests itself by an increasingly rapid rise in the prices of these assets. They end up by reaching such levels as appear excessive, even making an optimistic evaluation of the future profits which can be expected. The bursting of the bubble manifests itself by an opposite process, by a continuous and often brutal fall in these prices. -> read article... |
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| Pakistan
LPP Vows to Resist Draconian Emergency Hails lawyers for taking up the fight - Lends full support to resisting judges
Lahore: The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) has strongly condemned the Musharraf regime for imposing Emergency thus depriving the people of Pakistan of their already-limited basic human and democratic rights. -> read article... |
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| United States
Reproductive Rights TodayOne again reproductive rights are under attack in the US. Some states have already mofified their abortion laws, and in the last year more than 500 anti-abortion bills were introduced in state legislatures. Diane Feeley reviews the renewed offensive against women’s rights. -> read article... |
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