Economy
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Maiden Lane Sales Trigger Stampede to Dump Risk: Credit Markets (Shannon D. Harrington, Jody Shenn and Sarah Mulholland)
June 9, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve auctions of mortgage securities that the central bank assumed in the rescue of American International Group Inc. are fueling a selloff in credit markets ...
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The Bernanke Scandal: Full-Frontal Cluelessness (Robert Scheer)
June 8, 2011 (TruthDig.com) -- How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad groin. Otherwise we don’t stand a chance of reversing this administration’s ...
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VIDEO: Tax Scandal -- Top 10 Worst Corporate Income Tax Avoiders (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
June 08, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Sknt-UBRhxo
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America's Nuclear Spent-Fuel Time Bombs (Robert Alvarez)
Japan's nuclear disaster should serve as a wake-up call for the United States June 6, 2011 (OtherWords) -- Now that many Americans have stopped paying attention to Japan's nuclear catastrophe, ...
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This crisis has an exit (Ellen Brown)
June 7, 2011 (Asia Times) -- Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, ...
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Jamie Dimon’s Bizarre Idea About Why The Recovery Has Stalled (Robert Reich)
Jamie Dimon June 7, 2011 (RobertReich.org) -- According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. I’m not making this up. At a financial ...
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How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? (Dr. Paul Craig Roberts)
June 6, 2011, (Information Clearing House) -- What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. The staging of the fake ...
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The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Hellish And It’s On Its Way (Addison Wiggin)
June 1, 2011 (Forbes) -- “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner,” says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, “because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused ...
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War Is A Racket (Major General Smedley Butler, USMC)
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC June 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Smedley Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the ...
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The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths (David Schwartz)
June 5, 2011 (Common Dreams) -- The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book A Man without a Country. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his ...
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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In ...
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