George Washington discusses the need for a new model for our monetary system and looks at some alternatives. One noteworthy model that has already proven successful: the State of North Dakota is the only one in the...
A five-part report by David DeGraw on the economic meltdown fallout and the factors that contributed to it. Essentially, the people of the U.S. and the world are suffering now and facing worse times due to the...
Not much confidence, much anxiety, in America's malls at start of holiday seasonAs the Holiday shopping season begins, US Malls are not empty, but retailers are not confident, and clerks are...
"The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it." Scott Thill, journalist, Alternet If there is anything which is a philosophical...
As the economists battle with numbers, charts and calculations trying to figure if recovery is here or not, one more financial giant went down fighting. The latest casualty is the CIT Group. CIT Group is among the...
Dan Collins of Huffington Post talks about federal Judge Jed Rakoff, and how he is taking Wall Street by storm, insisting on accountability, and prepared to tackle cleaning up the mess: After...
From the liberal perspective of Nation blogger Katrina Vanden Heuvel - a well respected journalist and author, by the way - the crisis of our Nation is nothing less than a dire...
Detroit -- The Cobo Center erupted into a hectic scene of chaos today as thousands of Detroit citizens thronged in. They were coming to apply for federal aid for rent and utility bills. Some...
By: Rev. Jermano
China helped cause The Economic Crisis, and their dishonesty in not being truthful about it, is a pity. America has been pinned to the mat by China News and Commentary for being the...
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The pope has singled out greed and selfishness and the two main causes for the world economic crisis, according to the BBC. Speaking to a group of priests earlier this year he said he didnt want to give...
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The US unemployment rate, which increased to 9.5%, has hit a 26-year high, according to a report released today by the US Department of Labor. This increase in unemployment occurred because US businesses laid off...
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This is a blog post I wrote after coming across an article the New York Times had published in 1999, just after the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which Republocrats are trying to avoid talking about, but...
This is one of the few subjects for which I cannot provide any photographs (sorry!). I must say that the story in question appears to be more of a recruitment advertisment for the sex industry than a genuine...
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The U.S. Postal Service expects to save more than $100 million annually through a series of steps, but a handful of other steps reportedly being taken by the agency during its economic crisis will raise both cash...
Probably there is no danger of interminable discord when leaders of the Group of 20 gather in London to address the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Just one day, to do what their predecessors failed to...