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On the edge of the volcano
The emperor has no clothes Socialist Watch by Benjamin Weingarten 03/19.09 What we are seeing right now are the kinds of last ditch efforts that reveal how truly inept and desperate our leaders are.... ...
If you’re a little guy, a contract means nothing
TruthDig by Marie Cocco 03/19/09 With due deference to George Orwell, all contracts are equal. But some contracts are more equal than others. Contracts entered into by the hotshots at American International... ...
The Real AIG Scandal
Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back... ...
Hypocritical posturing by Obama over AIG bonuses
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers at a cost of $170 billion, is... ...
Our economic crisis: The view from the real America
Be Utopian: Demand the realistic The Nation by Robert Pollin 03/09/09 Neoliber al capitalism — whose defining features were Wall Street greed and big business domination of government policy-making —... ...
Record 31.8 million on food stamps
Government shows increase of 700,000 food stamp recipients in a single month. http://snipurl.com/ dabxn One in 8 US homeowners late paying or in foreclosure About one in eight U.S. homeowners with... ...
Theft is still theft, even by government
Freedom's Phoenix by Barry Hess 03/04/09 Things have certainly changed in the last year or two. Somehow, the part of the economy that is felt in the pocketbooks of average Citizens has gone from super-heated... ...
When Securitization Blew Up, So Did the Economy
By Mike Whitney One thing is certain, this isn't a normal recession. In a normal recession aggregate demand declines, economic activity slows, and GDP shrinks. While those things are taking place now,... ...
America's Fiscal Collapse
By Michel Chossudovsky In actuality, what we are dealing with is the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history, leading to social havoc and the potential impoverishment of millions... ...
They Done Us Wrong: Spending Our Way Into Greater Depression
http://www.lewrockwell.com /rozeff/rozeff277.html -- ------ The second Great Depression The Nation by Nicholas von Hoffman 03/03/09 The pause morphed into the correction, which got transmogrified into... ...