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By Andrew Leonard

The United States is unwilling to take the same harsh medicine it would prescribe to a developing nation that exhibited the same critical problem: domination of the political process by self-interested economic elites.

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The Quiet Coup

By Simon Johnson

The conventional wisdom among the elite is still that the current slump "cannot be as bad as the Great Depression." This view is wrong. What we face now could, in fact, be worse than the Great Depression'.

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Another 663,000 Jobs Lost in March

Girding for a Depression

By PETER MORICI

Today, the Labor Department reported the economy lost 663,000 payroll jobs in March. The economy is shifting to permanently lower levels of production and employment, as the recession nears turns into a depression.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22342.htm



Regressive Hypocrisy Again

By David Michael Green

Nobody does hypocrisy like the right in America. Nobody does it more shamelessly, more wantonly, or more promiscuously.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22354.htm



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