Fighting Climate Change in Portlandia
Not only is failure not an option, those fighting to avert cataclysmic climate change have achieved important successes worthy of celebrating.
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The IMF as Big Banks' Debt-Collector
On the topic of the IMF and the "global financial community," here is a nice piece from Michael
The Global Financial Community
An excellent article by Prabhat Patnaik on networkideas.org, the website of International Development Economics Associates, starts off with Lenin
Changing the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up
We just posted a new web-only article on the auto industry, by Alejandro Reuss of the D&S collective.
Sen. Byron Dorgan: the Good and the Bad
Sen. Byron Dorgan (Dem.-N.D.) got some good press from Huffington Post a couple of days ago; turns out
Dean Baker on Economists' 'Malpractice'
Interesting piece in the Boston Review by Dean Baker about how other countries operating their health care systems far more
'Geithner' on SNL
Nice critique of the stress tests, and of both Geithner and the 19 banks that took it, in this past
Goldman Sachs Pays For Predatory Ways
Investment firm and recipient of government largess Goldman Sachs has just settled an investigation by the Attorney General of Massachusetts
All-Out Effort to Put Single-Payer 'On the Table'
From AfterDowningStreet and elswehere. They also had a great letter from Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health
Unjust Deserts by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
REVIEW Unjust Deserts : How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back by Gar
TDCotE (x): 'Life Is Beautiful' Economics
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (x) A series of blog postings by D&S collective member Larry Peterson
Bank's $180 Billion Credit Card Time Bomb
If the economy stays on its present dismal course, banks can expect to lose $180 billion, according to analysts quoted
GM Bankruptcy Clock Ticking Fast
GM appears likely to follow fellow carmaker Chrysler into bankruptcy court. The company lost $6 billion in the first quarter