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Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?
Bailing Out the Power Elite http://www.lewrockwe ll.com/orig8/whitney10.htm l -------- Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain? Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Why is the Fed, an agency of... ...
The War and the Working Class
In The Nation, Michael Zweig says, "The government treats its soldiers the way most corporations treat their workforce - as an invisible, disrespected, disposable means to an end that is contrary to workers'... ...
The fall of the Dollar Empire
OPEC considers dumping US dollar Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries plans to discuss a proposal by Iran and Venezuela to price oil in non-dollar currencies. http://www.pr esstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43 221&sectionid=3510213... ...
US subprime crisis costs global 7.7 trillion dollars: bank
The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday. http://www.brei tbart.com/article.php?id=0 80214202021.5qwu7lx0&show_ article=1... ...
Government Suppresses Major Public Health Report
Maggie Mahar, AlterNet, reports: "The Center for Public Integrity, a public interest investigative journalism organization, has obtained copies of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study... ...
The Consumer End of a Stumbling Economy
Charles R. Morris, writing for The Washington Independent, says: "One can pity Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. No other federal reserve chairman ever cut interest rates by a full 1.25% within... ...
The 2007 US economic slowdown
The Free Liberal by Fred E. Foldvary 02/05/08 High rentals and purchase prices for commercial real estate increases costs for enterprise, which reduces its profits, and thus results in less economic... ...
IMF Head in Shock Fiscal Warning
By Chris Giles and Gillian Tett in Davos The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough "to get out of the turmoil we are in", Dominique Strauss-Kahn,... ...
US Slides Into Dangerous 1930s 'Liquidity Trap'
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Davos The United States is sliding towards a dangerous 1930s-style "liquidity trap" that cannot easily be stopped by drastic cuts in interest rates, Nobel economist Joseph... ...
Hillary Clinton’s massive conflict of interest
Fox News by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann 01/19/08 As American banks go hat in hand to foreign financial institutions and governments, begging for capital to help them get out of the mess into which... ...