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Obama’s first policy retreat?
Mother Jones by Nick Baumann Did Barack Obama just break his first campaign promise? On the campaign trail, Obama railed against big oil companies. He often criticized John McCain for backing tax cuts... ...
Hope You Die Before You Get Old
Every Trick in the Book By Mike Whitney The creation of equity bubbles is just a clever means of social engineering, just like regressive taxation. It separates the wheat from the chaff, exacerbating... ...
The Reckoning: Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
Eric Dash and Julie Creswell, The New York Times: "Even as the first shock waves of the subprime mortgage crisis hit Bear Stearns in June 2007, Citigroup's top executives expressed few concerns about their... ...
AIG Bailed Out Again
money.cnn.com — Troubled insurer American International Group got a reworked $152.5 billion deal from the federal government, as the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department made significant changes to... ...
Sarah the Diva: Palin plots for 2012?
The Nation by Ari Berman 10/27/08 A vicious back-and-forth broke out this weekend between advisers to John McCain and Sarah Palin about whether the Alaska Governor is to blame for the McCain campaign’s... ...
McCain banking on a Confederacy of Dunces
In These Times by David Sirota 10/24/08 Is John McCain stupid, or does he believe we are? That’s the question as he criticizes Barack Obama for allegedly trying to ‘redistribute the wealth’ with a plan... ...
The ABCs of Paulson's Bailout
Licensed Kleptocracy for Years to Come By Michael Hudson Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted that they are eroding the underlying economy - which is passing from democracy... ...
The coming military spending surge
The American Prospect by Matthew Yglesias 10/16/08 A substantial progressive landslide — involving the White House, over a dozen House seats, and at least half a dozen Senate seats — now looks like an... ...
US budget deficit hits record $454.8 billion
Houston Chronicle 10/14/08 The federal budget deficit soared to $454.8 billion in 2008 as a housing collapse and efforts to combat the economic slowdown pushed the tide of government red ink to the highest... ...
The Golden Parachute Survives
Mike Lillis,The Washington Independent: "For supporters of the Bush administration's $700-billion Wall Street bailout, it stands as a key selling point: a provision that limits pay packages for the heads... ...