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A Graphic Look at the State of Our Economy
(www.truthdig.com)
It’s been a year since the U.S. economy practically went to Hades in a handbasket, and since then the federal government sure has been busy trying to figure out where to allocate (read: throw) money... More
Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Big Bucks for Bailout Barons
(www.thenation.com)
One year after the global banking system collapsed the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) 16th Annual Executive Excess report -- "America's Bailout Barons" -- shows that the perverse system of... More
Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Four More Years of Bailout Ben (lauraflanders.firedoglake.com)
After Ben Bernanke allowed an $8 trillion housing bubble to ravage the global economy and nearly destroy the U.S. financial system, President Barack Obama has decided he deserves another term as... More
Submitted 6 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Obama's Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hamper Healthcare Refor
(www.alternet.org)
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
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
The Deification of Gentle Ben (www.thenation.com)
The Federal Reserve did not "avert disaster" for many millions of Americans. It helped to cause their disaster. The central bank, as I have written, was co-author of the destruction, along with the... More
Submitted 6 months ago by blogladder | 0 Comments |
Fed Up (www.washingtonmonthly.com)
Did Ben Bernanke really save America's financial system?
Submitted 6 months ago by blogladder | 0 Comments |
How About ‘Cash for My Crap Mortgage’?
(www.truthdig.com)
Forget about replicating the success of the surge in Iraq: Whoever came up with “cash for clunkers” should be put in charge of everything. The clunkers program ended Monday—under budget—after... More
Submitted 6 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
New Abuses in Old Forms
(www.prospect.org)
Big private-equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks.
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
The TARP Time Bomb the Media Missed
(www.motherjones.com)
Over at Politics Daily, MoJo's DC bureau chief, David Corn, points out that all the fuss over death panels and granny-killing government health care has overshadowed some very disturbing economic... More
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
AIG Logs a Profit
(www.truthdig.com)
For almost two years, insurance giant AIG has experienced quarterly losses—until now. The infamous company is reporting its first profitable quarter since 2007, a turnabout that will give the U.S.... More
Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
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