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Rebuilding the American Economy, Bush-Style
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Unsurprisingly, the Bush administration has proved serially incapable of building anything, even - in the long run - their own machine. And, from the Enron moment to the... ...
New President, new crisis
The American Prospect by Robert Kuttner 03/25/08 Whether the next president is named Clinton, Obama, or McCain, the new chief executive will face an economic challenge unlike any since 1933. The new... ...
Paying the piper
CounterPunch by Dave Lindorff 03/20/08 It’s appropriate that on this week of the fifth anniversary of the criminal US invasion of Iraq, we are also seeing several other things: the death toll of American... ...
Numerous Countries Have Recently Dropped The Dollar as Their Reserve Currency
Venezuela's state-run oil company begins demanding payment in euros as US dollar weakens Rafael Ramirez said the initiative by Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, to charge euros rather than U.S. dollars... ...
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... ...
Stocks Tumble Around World, Dollar Declines After Fed Cuts Rate
UBS AG posted its biggest drop in more than nine years in Zurich and Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell to the lowest in four years. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index and Japan's Nikkei... ...
Bear Stearns Fire-sale sends Global Markets Plunging, Dollar Routed
By Mike Whitney Bear's travails are just the beginning of Wall Street's woes. Now there's talk of Lehman Brothers going under. According to the Wall Street Journal. http://www.infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle19552.htm -------- The... ...
Bush's Big Bank Bailout
by Cliff Kincaid But Paulson’s answer was similar to Bush’s. He said that “on the one hand, you’ve got a moral hazard. On the other, you’ve got what’s right for the markets, what’s right for the stability... ...
Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot
The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. http://www.reute rs.com/article/idUSL149197 1920080314 U.S. faces... ...
The Face-Slap Theory
Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "Friday's employment report - which was so weak that it had many economists declaring that we're already in a recession - was bad news. But it was actually less... ...