Break Up The Big Banks Site Is Live. (www.huffingtonpost.com)
"I don't want these guys forced to take their shoes off in airport security lines with every one else" -CNBC commentator Melissa Francis on whether the bailed-out banks should provide private jets for... More
Submitted 4 months ago by jamescannonboyce | 0 Comments |
A Stimulus by Any Other Name
(www.prospect.org)
It's been the same story for months: Unemployment is increasing, even if the rate at which it rises has been slowing. While 9.8 percent of the labor force is actually unemployed, some 17 percent... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Winning With the Economy -- or Without It
(www.prospect.org)
No future candidates for president and few of their advisers will read Lynn Vavreck's new book -- her statistical methods and academic style guarantee that -- but they will miss it at their own peril.... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The Housing Hangover
(www.prospect.org)
The Making Home Affordable program, announced last February and begun in earnest in April, consists of two primary components: The first involves helping borrowers in danger of losing their home... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Forgotten Corners of the Economy
(www.prospect.org)
Another dead day on the street corner and Gonzalo Mejia is wondering how he will get by. He's been finding work just one or two days a week lately. Worse yet, a contractor recently stiffed him out of... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The Myth of Too Big to Fail
(www.prospect.org)
Amid last fall's financial chaos, executives from Wachovia, at the time the fourth-largest commercial bank in the country, had bad news for their regulators: They were broke. Federal officials... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Dismantling the Wall Street Casino
(open.salon.com)
Bailout pay czar Ken Feinberg raised a ruckus last week when he announced plans to slash cash payouts to executives at seven companies that have received massive levels of taxpayer support. While... More
Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Iron City in the Shadow of G-20
(www.thenation.com)
In the 1970s, Pittsburgh was hit hard by the collapse of the steel industry when several hundred people were forced to leave because of unemployment. During this time there was no policy introduced to... More
Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Race, class and opportunity Pt.2
(therealnews.com)
john a. powell: Why bail out Wall St. but punish Detroit? New administration's policies - old pattern.
Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Ralph Nader Throws His Hope in with Enlightened Billionaires
(www.progressive.org)
I saw Ralph Nader yesterday, indefatigable as ever.
Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
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