Commentary Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Foreclosure Phil (David Corn)
Who's to blame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? There are plenty of culprits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm.
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The Fading of The Mirage Economy (Steven Pearlstein)
Suddenly, it seems, we're getting hit from all directions.
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The Last Roundup (Christopher Ketchum)
Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
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Cultural Conservers (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- A few years back the American middle class indulged in another of the periodic orgies of self-congratulation in which it proclaims its opinion of its own historical importance. ...
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Megabubble waiting for new president in 2009 (Paul B. Farrell)
'Numbers racket' exposes potential disaster for economy, markets
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The Same New Ideas (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- As I write these words, a week before their publication, The Archdruid Report is starting its third year. It’s been a long strange trip, to borrow a phrase from the Grateful ...
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Preparing For What Future? (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s Archdruid Report post, as my regular readers will recall, tried to point out that the current round of price spikes in food and petroleum prices does not justify ...
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Not The End Of The World (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- You know that things are beginning to heat up when both sides of a controversy declare victory at the same time. Over the last week or so, that’s happened in the peak oil ...
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There is No Gas Shortage (Ed Wallace)
But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace
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Business As Usual (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- Those of us who are watching the crisis of industrial society arrive on schedule take our omens where we find them, and one appeared yesterday morning in the unlikely form of ...
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Swaps Tied to Losses Became `Frankenstein's Monster' (Neil Unmack, Sarah Mulholland)
April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The credit-default swap market has become a lesson in being careful what you wish for now that Wall Street has taken $245 billion of losses partly tied to such exotica.
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