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What Reforms Will the United States Have as a Result of This Recession?

Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Corruption takes many forms in different countries and locations. Here in the United States it may not be as common to pay off a judge or a customs official as it is in most low and middle income countries, but we do have quite a bit of legalized bribery, especially in the form of electoral campaign contributions. The most obvious current case is that of health care reform, where the powerful insurance, pharmaceutical and other lobbies are in the process of vetoing some of the most important parts of the health care reform that most Americans want and need."

http://www.truthout.org/091709U?n

 

Laurent Joffrin, Christian Losson and Francois Sergent | Joseph Stiglitz: "Our Faith in Markets Blinds Us"

Liberation editor Laurent Joffrin and journalists Christian Losson and Francois Sergent interview Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, leader of a commission charged by the French government with reevaluating economic indicators. Their discussion ranges "over topics from the urgency of reconsidering how to calculate a nation's wealth to that of rethinking the reform of the capitalist system."

http://www.truthout.org/091709X?n

 

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