Author : David Caploe

5 July 2010 Chanchala Devi always wanted a house. Not a mud-and-stick hut, like her current home in this desolate village in the mineral-rich, corruption-corroded state of Jharkhand, but...

1 July 2010. Only on Wall Street, in the rarefied realm of buyout moguls, could you actually have too much money. Private equity firms, where corporate takeovers are planned...

 30 June 2010 For years, Chinese leaders looked to the millions of poor workers from the country’s interior as the engine of a roaring export economy. They would move...

29 June 2010 Before the collapse, people simply looked for a house to buy. Later they got squeamish just thinking about buying. Now they are on a quest for...

 28 June 2010. By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com Once again, the US Congress has put together a behemoth legislative package, this one running close to 2000...

   24 June 2010 S. K. Sahai’s firm ships containers 2,400 nautical miles from Singapore to a port here in four or five days. But it typically takes more...

  23 June 2010 For many years, we have used “the global media society” as a central organizing concept to understand the world in which we live. A notable...

 22 June 2010 On a hot morning in late May, while some 2,000 workers at a Honda parts factory were striking in China’s south, 100 irate employees at a...

21 June 2010. It is labor revolt by text message and video upload, underwritten by the Chinese government. The 1,700 workers who went on strike at the Honda Lock...

 17 June 2010. That’s the amount that foreign banks and other financial companies have lent to public and private institutions in Greece, Spain and Portugal, three countries so mired...