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Black and Spitzer on Lehman Fraud
More on the scandal that is brewing in connection with the last months of Lehman Bros.: Today's New
Synergy in Security
An article in yesterday's New York Times, Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants, traces the
Lehman: The Art of the 'Sale'
Friday saw the release of a mammoth official report on the demise of the late, lamented Lehman Brothers. Written by
(Repost from March 9:) Items on Greece
A couple of items on Greece: First, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, who is working on an article for us on the Greek
(Repost from Feb. 25:) Goldman Sachs and Greece
Dear blog readers: This is a restored version of one of the posts, from Feb. 25, that we lost when
Unemployment at 9.7%; Links on Jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs numbers for February this morning; find the Employment Situation Summary here. I
Debt Vultures in Liberia (Greg Palast)
Greg Palast continues to follow the story of debt vultures who "buy up the loans of poor governments, wait
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