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Got Docs? Life On The Edge Of A Bubble (lauraflanders.firedoglake.com) TMC

Barack Obama and his aides learned a simple lesson last year, in the seemingly endless 2008 presidential race: The guy is a very good campaigner. So it wasn't much of a surprise that they sent him... More

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Submitted 9 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

OH, NOW THEY'RE DEFICIT HAWKS (www.washingtonmonthly.com) TMC

Dick Cheney declared during Bush's first term, "Deficits don't matter." Congressional Republicans agreed, spent freely, and gladly put two wars on the national charge card. The results were trillions... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Groups Urge Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans (us.oneworld.net) TMC

Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world's capital and stock markets, a coalition of... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

The Bailout: Bush's Final Pillage (www.thenation.com) TMC

In the final days of the election, many Republicans seem to have given up the fight for power. But that doesn't mean they are relaxing. If you want to see real Republican elbow grease, check out the... More

Tags: bailout,tmc,economic crisis,bush administration,republicans,treasury,insurance,wall street

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Predatory Scapegoating (www.thenation.com) TMC

Some three weeks before New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign his office in disgrace (sex! scandal! floozies!), he published an op-ed in the Washington Post. Titled "Predatory Lenders'... More

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Submitted about 1 year ago by robertharding | 0 Comments |

U.S., Bowing to Pressure, Will Buy Banks (www.alternet.org) TMC

The George W. Bush administration announced Friday evening it would buy shares in troubled U.S. banks, a move that upstages its own rigid, free-market ideology, and answers calls for the action by... More

Tags: tmc,economic crisis,bailout,buy banks,bush administration,henry paulson,world markets

Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 2 Comments |

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