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House price slump in US dashes hope of end to credit crisis
The price of the average home was 11 per cent lower than a year ago, the S&P Case-Shiller index showed yesterday, as repossessed homes flood the market - and economists predict that the price adjustment... ...
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... ...
Anbar: US Trophy for Iraq Security Losing Its Shine
Reuters reports: "Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anbar's second city of Falluja, a former... ...
Toward a New New Deal
In the introduction to a series of guest articles reflecting on the "usable past" of the New Deal, The Nation writes, "Seventy-five years ago, facing the catastrophic, worldwide failure of the free market,... ...
Qualified Borrowers Face Credit Squeeze
Kimberly Blanton, reporting for The Boston Globe, writes, "Lenders are rejecting more loan applicants with strong credit scores, the latest indication the nation's credit crunch is deepening and further... ...
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... ...
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... ...
The dollar is dead, long live gold!
from Reason to Freedom by Peter Namtvedt 03/14/08 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States announced today before the opening of the stock market that it would create an exchange whereby bundles... ...