More on "Who Knew" About the Coming Crash

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Financial Regulators Held Secret Meeting With Hedge Fund Short Sellers In 2007 John Carney|Aug. 26, 2009, 8:40 AM| http://www.businessinside...

Teddy's Letters

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Back in the eighties I led a number of delegations to Central America. Usually they were for US church groups. But some were for a human rig...

The Public Option's Last Stand, and the Public's

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Robert Reich Reprinted from his Blog, Aug 16, 2009 I would have preferred a single payer system like Medicare, but became convinced earlier ...

Who Knew?

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Stan G. Duncan... Here's a joke that economists used to tell at conventions, that is, until 2008 when it stopped being funny: Once u...

The Birthers and Jim Crow 2.0

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By: Kai Wright From TheRoot.com The manufactured anger driving the birthers and health care town halls is the same wh...

The Economic Meltdown and the Third World

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Stan G. Duncan Years ago I was drinking sangrias at a cock fight outside of Cuernavaca, Mexico, with a guy who had just gotten fired from th...

Foreclosures: The Problem That Won’t Go Away

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By James Kwak | Aug 7, 2009, 2:19 PM | Author's Website With everyone hoping for positive GDP growth in Q3...

Well, At Least Wall Street is Having a Good Time

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Stan G. Duncan There’s an odd thing happening on Wall Street, and it doesn’t look good. Overall since January, most companies on the stock...

Interview with Joseph Stiglitz on Solvency of the Banks

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More Reflections on Jobs--Part Two

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Stan Duncan... I n June, the quarterly unemployment figures came out and unsurprisingly, they reached 9.5 percent. That’s about 30.2 million...