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Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
Writing for Truthout, Dean Baker examines the housing crisis: "Momentum is building in Washington for a large-scale housing bailout. It is virtually certain something will happen. The big questions are... ...
Why Food Costs Are Climbing
The Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly says, "For the first time in decades, the specter of widespread hunger for millions looms as food prices explode. Two words not in common currency in recent years - famine... ...
Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles
EARTH MEANDERS The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@earthmeanders.co m http://earthmeanders.blogs pot.com/ April... ...
US Subprime Crisis to Claim 200,000 Bank Jobs
Tom Bawden reports for The Times UK, "Commercial banks will cut a record 200,000 US jobs in the next 12 to 18 months to reduce costs as the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc on the bottom lines of... ...
Dollar Heads for Biggest Weekly Drop Against Euro in a Month
"There are further declines ahead for the dollar,'' said Antje Praefcke, a Frankfurt-based currency strategist at Commerzbank AG, Germany's second-largest lender. http://tinyurl.co m/2a9uvd World... ...
"Mortgage Rescue" Scams Hit Close to Home
Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook report for ABC News: "As the mortgage crisis continues to unfold, the FBI says incidents of suspicious financial activity banks reported to the bureau has skyrocketed,... ...
New housing crisis, old isms
In These Times by David Sirota 03/24/08 The Federal Reserve Bank’s decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed credit to Wall Street banks was met... ...
US economist calls financial crisis worst since 1930s
Dollars tough to sell The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while... ...
A financial crisis unmatched since the Great Depression
Putin calls for rouble vigilance as dollar plummets Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his government and Central Bank on Monday to keep a close eye on rouble appreciation as the dollar continues... ...
America Was Conned, Who Will Pay?
By Larry Elliott, economics editor The crisis will only end when house prices stop falling and banks stop racking up huge losses on their loans. Doing that, however, will require the US government to... ...