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The Collapsing Housing Bubble and Resulting Financial Fallout

This policy memo is from Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The Collapsing Housing Bubble and

20,000 Vietnamese Workers Go On Strike At Nike Contract Factory

From the Associated Press: HANOI, Vietnam: More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-

What's behind the assault on Basra

Naftana ('Our Oil' in Arabic) is an independent UK-based committee supporting democratic trade unionism in Iraq. It

The Job

This satirical short (The Job) was created by Screaming Frog Productions. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGJq8wrw5I&

New Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization

This new report reminds us yet again why it is so important to follow the independent press. You never get

Clinton's Bigger Lies

The Shock Doctrine While there is still some attention to Hillary Clinton’s role in the 1990s US foreign policy

Cockburn on Spitzer, Wall Street, and UFE

Alexander Cockburn's column in the March 31st issue of The Nation (alas, not the most recent issue—some

CEPR Paper Responds to Foreign Affairs on Venezuela

CEPR Paper Responds to Foreign Affairs on Venezuela by Mark Weisberg Center for Economic and Policy Research March 21, 2008

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: It's a Recession

Our latest web-only article, this one by John Miller, D&S collective member and professor of economics at

D&S at the Left Forum

As we do every year, D&S will be sharing an exhibit table with the Union for Radical Political

Conference: "Think BIG" to End Poverty and Hunger in the U.S.

This weekend (March 7-9) in Boston, the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network is holding a conference of economists

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