All Checks, No Balances: Campaign Finance Sells Out
Thanks to the Supreme Court, corporations are free to spend whatever they want on elections. They just don’t want to be seen doing it. Peter…
Economy
Banks Siding Against the Customer in Fraud Cases
Naomi Wolf Huffington Post Like most consumers, I had always assumed that banks and customers are united in wanting to curtail bank fraud. Unfortunately, I…
CEOs Blame Consumer Class for Joblessness: Admit Economy Grows From Bottom Up
Eric Blair Activist Post The economic debate has been going on for decades: if only we give more money to the wealthy Elite, they will…
Economic Collapse Hits the Super Mainstream — Tony Robbins Issues Warning (VIDEO)
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A Vision For State-Owned Banking in Wisconsin
David Redick Activist Post State-owned banks are finally being seen as a step in the right direction away from dependency on, and control by, the Federal…
U.S. Middle Class Vanishing
Press TV The American middle class is on the verge of disappearing, while the United States, itself, is in danger of becoming a third world…
Post-Mortgage Meltdown, Where Do We Go Now?
NPR For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the…
Policy Elite Acting Like The Priests of Some Ancient Cult
Paul Krugman NY Times As I look at what passes for responsible economic policy these days, there’s an analogy that keeps passing through my mind….
Greg Palast Confronts The Generalissimo of Globalization
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The State’s ‘Inception’ Fails
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Lew Rockwell Two years ago, the economy was seriously dragged down amidst an amazing banking crisis that spread throughout the world….
California May Jail Parents if Children Miss Too Much School
Washington Post Talk about parental responsibility. The California Senate just passed a bill that could send parents to jail for up to a year if…
Failure Of Obama’s Pet ShoreBank Costs Taxpayers $368 Million, Which Immediately Goes To Goldman Sachs Among Others
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge After a lengthy attempt to bail out his pet bank, ShoreBank Chicago, Illinois, which included several alleged armtwisting episodes by the…
NOAA’s Supposed Peer Reviewers: We Never Reviewed the Report
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones The federal government is facing mounting criticism over the oil budget report released on August 4 that has been characterized as painting an overly rosy picture…
Grim future for young workers in ‘pensioner ghettos’
Emma Simon The Telegraph Photo: ALAMY Rural areas, particularly in the South West of England, will be the worst affected by a significant increase in…