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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
Vancouver Olympics--At What Price?
For good alternative Olympics coverage, check out a three-part radio series entitled The Winter Olympics Comes to the Northwest...But
Kwak on Mankiw on the Deficit
From Baseline Scenario; hat-tip to LF. James Kwak and Simon Johnson have a new book, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street
What to Do About Housing Foreclosures?
Dollars & Sense and the Boston chapter of Democratic Socialists of America are co-sponsoring a forum on the housing foreclosure
Rethinking Poverty today
United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York will present a book launch this afternoon to
Security and Order Not the Issue in Haiti (Alternet)
Excellent piece on Haiti by Arun Gupta at Alternet. More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief,
CEO-As-Hero on CBS (Labor Notes)
Excellent piece from Labor Notes. The best bit is about how the CEO blathers on this "reality" TV
Break Up With Your Big Bank (Bankster)
Here, from Bankster, is another example of anti-big-bank activism, albeit of the PC consumerist sort, that *might* be able to
Obama's Junk Economics (Michael Hudson)
From Counterpunch: Obama's Junk Economics Democrats Say "Bye" to Populist Option In a dress rehearsal for
The New Deal in Reverse (Steve Fraser)
From TomDispatch, a piece by Steve Fraser criticizin' Obama's populist droppin' of g's and