CIA Official From San Diego Pleads Guilty to Fraud
San Diego Native ‘Dusty’ Foggo Is Latest Figure Caught Up in the Duke Cunningham Scandal By Debbi Baker / UNION-TRIBUNE…
Category: Economy
BREAKING NEWS: House Rejects Bailout – Stocks Plunge 500 Points
Staff September 29, 2008 0 Comments on BREAKING NEWS: House Rejects Bailout – Stocks Plunge 500 Points
UPDATE: Stock Market Falls 777 Points – Highest Point Drop Ever ! Go here. WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives…
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Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
by Michelle Nichols / Reuters / September 25, 2008 NEW YORK – Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Economy, Energy, Environment, Organizing
Deal reached on $700B bailout, lawmakers say
UPDATE: Deal falls apart as GOP rank and file revolt against ‘socialism’ – go here. Bailout said to provide some…
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Urgent Confidential E-Mail From Minister of Treasury Paulson
From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Dear American: I need to ask you…
The Fruit of Hypocrisy
Dishonesty in the finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us out By Joseph Stiglitz /…
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The United States of Goldman Sachs: The Bailout, The Bankers, and the Billions We Are About to Lose
Gregg Robinson September 22, 2008 1 Comment on The United States of Goldman Sachs: The Bailout, The Bankers, and the Billions We Are About to Lose
The British Economist John Maynard Keynes famously referred to capitalism as the “Casino Society”. What Americans are quickly learning, however,…
Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished,
By Naomi Klein / The Guardian / September, 22 2008 Whatever the events of this week mean, nobody should believe…
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Wall Street and Washington – The End of A Gilded Age
How the Rules of the Game Have Changed By Steve Fraser / TomDispatch.com / September 18, 2008 What is Washington…
A Nation of Village Idiots
by James Moore / The Huffington Post / September 18, 2008 Don’t let them tell you this economic meltdown is…
A Crash Course in Economic Crashes
Each week, sometimes daily now, we slide by a new economic warning sign, by another wreck that’s already off the…
McCain and the Depression of 2008
“The Fundamentals of the American Economy are strong.” John McCain before the 2008 election “Prosperity is just around the corner.”…
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Tagged: Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin
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