We Need a Care Package!
We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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Corporate America's Counter-Stimulus Strategy
Firms decide to shut profitable plants while spurning buyers.
Tax Havens and the Financial Crisis
From offshore havens to financial centers, banking secrecy faces scrutiny.
Sen. Durbin: Bankers 'Own' Congress
From Glenn Greenwald's blog at Salon.com; hat-tip to LF: Thursday April 30, 2009 05:35 EDT Top
Chrysler to File for Bankruptcy
The big banks went for the deal, but the hedge funds wouldn't budge. Now it's headed
NAFTA Flu?
From an interview with Robert Wallace, a geographer who has studied avian flu, on Democracy Now!. Hat-tip to LF. The
Yes, Things Are Really Bad
Another fabulously depressing economic snapshot from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI): GDP Picture
Is Factory Pig Farming To Blame For Swine Flu?
In the face of what may soon become a global pandemic, the pork industry has begun lobbying to have officials
Citibank and Bank of America Fail Stress Tests
Six of the nation's 19 largest banks have failed the Federal Reserve's "Stress Tests,"
American Casino (GritTV)
Interview about a new documentary, on GritTV (also new? I hadn't heard of it) with Laura Flanders (whom
Contours of Crisis: Fiction and Reality
We have posted the second article in a series by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. Here are the first few
Workers To Control Chrysler
The Financial Times is reporting that under a restructuring deal for Chrysler, the United Auto Workers (UAW) will own 55%