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Fed Up: Bernanke joins G-7 to Stem Global Financial Meltdown
By Mike Whitney The term "subprime" is a red herring; it is used by the media to minimize what is really going on. The meltdown in financing extends across the entire range of mortgage-security products.... ...
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... ...
States Hit Hard by Economic Downturn
The Washington Post's Keith B. Richburg and Ashley Surdin write: "State budgets have been hit hard by a worsening national economy, including rising costs for energy and health care. In addition, fallout... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Subprime Mortgage Watchdogs Kept on Leash
E. Scott Reckard, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes: "Freelance financial watchdogs who examined the paperwork on subprime home loans being sold to Wall Street had an inside view of the boom... ...
The Dollar, Paulson, and Carlyle Capital
By Mike Whitney The subprime meltdown just got a whole lot bigger. As the massive cycle of deleveraging continues for the over-extended hedge funds; Triple A assets will be sold for merely pennies on... ...
It’s the Big Brother who should bother us
CounterPunch by Dave Lindorff 03/12/08 Gov. Spitzer’s bust should give pause to those in Congress who are ready to hand President Bush a free pass to continue his six-year campaign of warrantless spying... ...
Government report forecasts US recession
A US government report on Tuesday forecasted for the first time that the country's economy would enter recession in 2008. http://www.ft.com/c ms/s/b2c610fc-ef92-11dc-8a 17-0000779fd2ac.html Many more... ...
How government makes things worse
Boston Globe by Jeff Jacoby 03/09/08 What do ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences... ...