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A Titanic Budget (Jo Comerford)
A great piece from Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project, recently posted at TomDispatch. Here is Tom Engelhardt'
The Defective Society
A review of The Economics of Integrity by Anna Bernasek (HarperCollins, 2010).
Haiti's Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
The mainstream media got half the story right about Haiti. Reporters observed that Haiti's stark poverty intensified the
The Other Greenspan Bubble
Now that Alan Greenspan has admitted that the economic crisis proved his core economic theories to be wrong, it’s
Why Not End Homelessness Now?
Here is the press release for the 13th annual Homelessness Marathon, an annual overnight radio broadcast on homelessness and poverty.
Greenspan Wins Dynamite Prize
From the folks at the Real-World Economics Review (formerly the Post-Autistic Economics Review); they initially called this the "Ignoble
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle (Matt Taibbi)
Matt Taibbi's latest at Rolling Stone; also check out a blog post by Taibbi in which he agrees
Top Firms Cause $2.2 Trillion in Eco-Damage (UN)
From the Guardian; hat-tip to Larry P. World's top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates
Commercial Real Estate: 'Extend and Pretend'
I have been meaning to post this for a while--interesting post from the Financial Times' Money Supply blog: Subprime