Top Picks ~ Week of December 4, 2006

China Seeks Direct Talks with OPEC
By Jim Krane – AP (Dec 4, 2006)

Revealed: The Real Rate of Inflation
By Edmund Conway – The Telegraph, London (Dec 4, 2006)

Bank of New York to Buy Mellon for $16.5B
New York – Reuters (Dec 4, 2006)

Dollar’s Fall Aids London’s Drive for Financial Supremacy
By David Smith – The Times, London (Dec 3, 2006)

The Ten Worst Corporations of 2005
By Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman – CommonDreams.org (Apr 25, 2006)

Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
By Antonia Juhasz – AlterNet (Dec 7, 2006)

Leading Asian Economist Urges Joint Action on Dollar
By Keith Bradsher – NY Times (Dec 8, 2006)