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Who Really Crashed the Economy? (www.yesmagazine.org)

Recent media events have diverted attention from Wall Street’s responsibility for crashing the economy, taking trillions of dollars in public bailout money, and then rewarding itself with outlandish... More

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Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need (www.alternet.org)

Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.

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Do They Take Us for Schmucks? (www.thenation.com)

Creating a new agency to protect consumers from predatory lenders is a critical financial reform. But bank lobbyists and their allies in Congress are still doing their best to quash it.

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Chris Dodd's Extreme Makeover (www.motherjones.com)

Something very strange has happened to Sen. Chris Dodd.

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Recession Still Going Strong. Will Congress Act (Again)? (www.inthesetimes.com)

Many economists think the recession may be over, but 85 percent of voters surveyed in September for the Economic Policy Institute disagree, with more than three-fifths expecting joblessness and a... More

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Recession Brings Uneven Pain, Threatens Uneven Recovery (www.inthesetimes.com)

While the recession has left no community untouched, we're not all feeling the same pain. From the outset, people of color started out lower, fell farther, and landed harder, according to a new report... More

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Meet the Hazzards (www.thenation.com)

The $17.5 trillion bank bailout rewarded gamblers and predators. Here's how it happened.

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The Housing Market's Lost Decade (www.motherjones.com)

When big asset bubbles burst, prices don't recover for years.

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Mass Unemployment: An Epidemic of ‘Social Murder’ (www.inthesetimes.com)

Precisely at the moment that suddenly idle working people need to muster all of their resources to find new work in an environment with few opportunities, they tend to feel their self-esteem ebbing... More

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Who's Leading the Fight Against Consumer Financial Regulation (www.prospect.org)

The Chamber of Commerce doesn't think consumers need real protection after the financial crisis.

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