Category Archives: GOVERNMENT

The Mortgage Morass

By PAUL KRUGMAN The New York Times American officials used to lecture other countries about their economic failings and tell them that they needed to emulate the U.S. model. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, in particular, led … Continue reading →

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Massive Investigation Into Deceptive Foreclosure Practices

by Shahien Nasiripour Huffington Post Lawyers Peter Ticktin, left, and Josh Bleil, right, are shown with depositions from 150 robo-signers, alleging that the court documents reveal an industry-wide banking scheme to defraud homeowners, in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Tuesday, Oct. 12, … Continue reading →

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Fat Race: Last year’s jeans won’t fit? Blame the free market.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING Foreign Policy Along with iPods and Hollywood blockbusters, another American trend is sweeping the world: corpulence. As countries grow wealthier, they’re also growing fatter. In China, the obesity rate is increasing by about 40 percent every … Continue reading →

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The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America

By Robert Reich Huffington Post Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before — and they’re doing it behind … Continue reading →

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More Tales of A Bankrupt Culture: Because of Unpaid Fee, Firefighters Let Home Burn

msnbc.com Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the Sept. 29 fire, … Continue reading →

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Rock on Daddy Buffet

Even Warren Buffet says, “..I think we should raise taxes for the very rich…”

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FLOW: For Love Of Water

Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply … Continue reading →

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“Guest Workers” and U.S. Unemployment

The Huffington Post OCTOBER 3, 2010 Host, Dan Rather Reports Posted: September 29, 2010 01:36 PM Immigration reform this year is not just dead but rotting, despite the earnest efforts of talking heads on the left to create a buzz … Continue reading →

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Reich Blames Economy’s Woes On Income Disparity

Economist Robert Reich isn’t surprised at the anemic economic recovery from the meltdown in 2008. His new book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, argues that the economy isn’t going to get moving again until we address a fundamental … Continue reading →

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Robert Reich on AFTERSHOCK

The Next Economy and America’s Future:

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