Taxing the Top
In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.
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A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten
I stumbled on this nice piece over at Global Research: A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten We Hold These Truths: the
Michael Greenberger on Derivatives
C-Span had a nice segment on Friday with Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland, on derivatives.
Ethanol Snake Oil
BusinessWeek has an exposé on the pitfalls of ethanol. *It isn't better for the environment than oil; *It
'Sham' Bailouts Help Speculators
Naked Capitalism has a couple of nice posts about comments made by Michael Patterson, head of a private equity firm,
Steelworkers Attack ArcelorMittal
From yesterday's WSJ; find background on the situation in this feature article in our current issue. The CEO
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