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Bailouts Revisited: Who Got Rescued and Who Got Screwed? | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
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Bank of America got bailed out, but Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. The insurance company American International Group (AIG) was rescued, but in July federal authorities refused to bail out a... More
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Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents
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So much for the economic independence that's supposed to come with young adulthood.
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There's a Bubble That Still Threatens the Entire American Economy ... and Few Are Talking About It
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Outrageously large rewards for executives give executives an incentive to behave outrageously -- and engage in behaviors that put the rest of us at risk.
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Obama's Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hamper Healthcare Refor
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The real economic spillovers and side effects of Wall Street-leverage and rocket-science concoctions brought the curtain down on the romance with the unfettered free market. This was a mess that did... More
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Wal-Mart Faces Its Day of Reckoning
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Wal-Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.
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Why Breast Implants Are Deflating Along with the Economy
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Many women who invested in big busts are in deflationary mode.
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House 'Under Water'? Do Like the Banks Do and Just Walk Away
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Banks aren't taking possession of houses after foreclosure, creating a "shadow inventory" that may derail the recovery.
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New Study Exposes 2007 as the Year of the Super-Rich
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In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.
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How Outlet Malls Have Convinced Shoppers into Thinking They're Getting a Sweet Deal
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Are America's 55 million outlet shoppers scoring great deals on expensive brandname products, or getting less than they're bargaining for?
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The Economic Fallout Has Decimated the Black Middle Class
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40 percent of African Americans will have experienced unemployment or underemployment by 2010 and child poverty will increase to slightly over half.
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
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