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The body count on Main Street
In These Times by Nick Turse 12/19/08 On Oct. 4, in Los Angeles, Karthik Rajaram, 45, shot his wife, mother-in-law and three sons before turning the gun on himself. In a suicide note, Rajaram wrote that... ...
Dude, where’s my $700 billion?
Salon by Mike Madden 12/17/08 Oh, for those flush days of October. This won’t be news to anyone with a 401K or without a winning lottery ticket, but even though Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has burned... ...
The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests
Light REDD: The Looming Tragedy of Carbon Markets Paying to Destroy Ancient Forests Using carbon funds, the world's governments are poised to subsidize ancient forest logging, claiming it benefits the... ...
The global credit system is in a state of paralysis
What to Do Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books: "What the world needs right now is a rescue operation. The global credit system is in a state of paralysis, and a global slump is building momentum as... ...
Bailing out the ruling class
The Partial Observer by James Leroy Wilson 11/13/08 [T]he bailout solution is attractive to the Political Class, because it increases their power over our lives. But their mismanagement can’t go on forever.... ...
The US Government Will Default On Its Debt
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy By Amit R. Paley The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the... ...
Financing Poverty: Rescuing the Rich instead of the Poor
ISIS Press Release 03/11/08 Taxpayer's money is being misused in the global financial crisis to rescuing those that have grown super-rich by draining the real economy, creating poverty, and fuelling... ...
The Predator State
by James Galbraith on Bill Moyer's Journal: Video and transcript This is the big one. I have been working on financial crises since the New York City rescue in 1975. And this is, by far and away, the... ...
When the Gloves Come Off
Jonathan Schell, The Nation: "'Every tree in the forest will fall,' said James McCord, the Watergate conspirator, as he prepared to blow the lid off the cover-up of the scandal, leading to the forced midterm... ...
Down For The Count: "The whole system is contracting"
By Mike Whitney The US Treasury and Federal Reserve are now underwriting the entire financial system. The free market has been abandoned altogether. Everything from commercial paper to money markets... ...