Finance
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After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari
Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined ...
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Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman
Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...
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8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $ | Mark Ames
Oct. 8, 2009 (Exiled Online) -- Every day and every week we hear another shocking story about how our billionaires have cooked up an even sicker scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the ...
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Global Systemic Crisis In Summer 2009: The Cumulative Impact Of Three Rogue Waves (LEAP/E2020)
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 as early as October 2008, on the eve of summer 2009, the question of the U.S. and UK capacity to finance their unbridled public deficits has become the central question ...
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Housing Bubble Smackdown: Bigger Crash Ahead | Mike Whitney
Huge "shadow inventory" Mike Whitney -- Global Research April 21, 2009 -- Due to the lifting of the foreclosure moratorium at the end of March, the downward slide in housing is gaining speed. The ...
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Fed's Fisher Forecasts Steep Contraction in US GDP (Nipa Piboontanasawat)
April 14, 2009 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said “grim” figures indicate the world’s largest economy shrank steeply last quarter. “The economic data in the ...
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The Corporate State Is Here -- Bill Moyers Interviews William Greider
"The corporate state is here. And I'd say, let's not argue over that. The fact is, if the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way ...
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Growing Transatlantic tensions on the eve of the G20 summit (LEAP/E2020)
March 16, 2009 (LEAP/E2020) -- According to LEAP/E2020, there are only two options left for the G20 leaders who gather April 2nd in London: either they rebuild a new international monetary system, ...
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Paulson's Swindle Revealed | William Greider
Oct. 30, 2008 (The Nation) -- The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary ...
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Economic Free Fall? (William Greider)
Aug. 3, 2008 (The Nation) -- Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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