Category Archives: GREED

Suicides and Student Loan Debt

Posted on Monday, August 29, 2011 by meganwilson

CIO!: One Solution to these suicides and to the worsening U.S. economy is for the federal government to Forgive All Student Loan Debt! Rather than continuing to throw (away) money at Wall Street, the U.S. government should help Main Street … Continue reading →

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The Rescue That Missed Main Street

Posted on Monday, August 29, 2011 by meganwilson

Government officials rewarded imprudent institutions with stupefying amounts of free money. Even so, we are still in economically stormy seas. Doesn’t that indicate that it’s time to try a different tack? By Gretchen Morgenson The New York Times  FOR the … Continue reading →

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U.S. Cities Continue To Violate Human Rights and Make It A Crime To Be Homeless

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2011 by meganwilson

By Janell Ross HUFFINGTON POST The challenges poor and homeless Americans often face accessing clean drinking water and restroom facilities violate international human rights standards, according to a report issued by a United Nations investigator this month. Catarina de Albuquerque, … Continue reading →

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Can We Stop the Charade and Just Cut To The Chase: THE U.S. IS HEADED FOR A DEPRESSION

Posted on Friday, August 26, 2011 by meganwilson

With a nod to Third Voice (for those who remember it) … but without the cool interface CIO! = burgundy (a step up from red) GDP: U.S. Economy Grows Only 1 Percent In Spring, Increasing Recession Fears by Christopher S. … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry’s and Wall Street’s Scheme to Profit from Teacher Deaths

Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 by meganwilson

All they (Perry’s administration) had to do was convince retirees to let UBS buy life insurance policies on them. When the retirees died, those policies would pay out benefits to Wall Street speculators, and the state, supposedly, would get paid … Continue reading →

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All Work and No Pay: The dirty secret of the jobless recovery

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by meganwilson

YOU: doing more with less. CORPORATE PROFITS: up 22 percent. By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery Mother Jones Also read harrowing first-person tales of overwork and 12 charts on just how much is being demanded of American workers. On a … Continue reading →

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WORD!

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by meganwilson

U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading →

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Kellogg Asks Mayan Group To Reconsider Toucan Sam-Like Logo

Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by meganwilson

SAN FRANCISCO — Kellogg Co. is asking a group working to defend Mayan culture to reconsider its logo, saying consumers can confuse it with Toucan Sam, the mascot of its Froot Loops cereal. An attorney for the world’s largest cereal … Continue reading →

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Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2011 by meganwilson

By Robert Reich We now live in parallel universes. One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The … Continue reading →

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The Deficit is Not Default of Obama

Posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 by cherylmeeker

EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama, by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis, Thursday 21 July 2011 Let’s talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the “debt ceiling.” From 2001 to 2008, a … Continue reading →

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