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Category Archives: CAPITALISM
Map of the recent mass animal deaths
Posted by Nick Eaton SFGate I didn’t realize just how many bizarre cases of mass animal deaths have occurred in the past month, until I saw the custom Google Map shown above. Birds and fish have been dying en masse … Continue reading
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SOLUTIONS: High Pay Commission
In an effort to try and curb hefty bonuses, and perhaps risky behavior, in the financial sector, a group of labor unionists, journalists and academics from the U.K. have launched a high pay commission.
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The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team
By Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research HUFFINGTON POST This is the small matter that leads progressives to be unhappy with the renewed dominance of the Clinton economic team. If progressives had devised policies that … Continue reading
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The Limits of Consumption
By John McKnight and Peter Block HUFFINGTON POST The essential promise of a consumer society is that virtually all satisfaction can be purchased. This promise runs so deep in us that we’ve come to take our identity from our capacity … Continue reading
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The Bill Daley Problem
By Simon Johnson HUFFINGTON POST Top bankers, including Bill Daley, have pulled off a complete snow job — including since the crisis broke in fall 2008. They have put forward their special interests while claiming to represent the general interest. … Continue reading
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Economists: It Doesn’t Look Good For U.S. Economy In Next Decade
By Mark Felsenthal Reuters … the United States has failed to learn its lesson from the financial crisis and continues to implicitly back its largest financial institutions. To hear a number of prominent economists tell it, it doesn’t look good … Continue reading
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More Dead Birds
Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Sweden, Millions Of Dead Fish Found In Maryland, Brazil, New Zealand The Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan First Posted: 01- 5-11 09:11 AM | Updated: 01- 6-11 11:17 PM UPDATE: Hundreds and possibly thousands of dead … Continue reading
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The Real Situation (response to QE2 Explained)
The current economic situation is explained and corrections are made to the recent “QE2 Explained” viral video.
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Over 100,000 Fish, Over 3,000 Birds Die in Arkansas… How?
By Zachary Shahan Ecolocalizer It seems this has become pretty big news. And beyond the mass fish and bird deaths in Arkansas, a large number of sudden bird deaths have occurred in Louisiana, Sweden, Kentucky, and other places, and a … Continue reading
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