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U.S. May Add New Financial Watchdog
From today's Washington Post; hat-tip to LF: Consumer Agency Under Consideration By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Binyamin Appelbaum and
All That Glitters Is Goldman Sachs
Robert Zevin, president of Robert Brooke Zevin Associates and the founder of the socially responsible investment movement in the United
Science Fiction From Below
On Saturday I got to see a terrific new movie, Sleep Dealer, written and directed by Alex Rivera. It'
A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten
I stumbled on this nice piece over at Global Research: A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten We Hold These Truths: the
Michael Greenberger on Derivatives
C-Span had a nice segment on Friday with Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland, on derivatives.
Ethanol Snake Oil
BusinessWeek has an exposé on the pitfalls of ethanol. *It isn't better for the environment than oil; *It
'Sham' Bailouts Help Speculators
Naked Capitalism has a couple of nice posts about comments made by Michael Patterson, head of a private equity firm,
Steelworkers Attack ArcelorMittal
From yesterday's WSJ; find background on the situation in this feature article in our current issue. The CEO
The IMF as Big Banks' Debt-Collector
On the topic of the IMF and the "global financial community," here is a nice piece from Michael
The Global Financial Community
An excellent article by Prabhat Patnaik on networkideas.org, the website of International Development Economics Associates, starts off with Lenin
Changing the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up
We just posted a new web-only article on the auto industry, by Alejandro Reuss of the D&S collective.
Sen. Byron Dorgan: the Good and the Bad
Sen. Byron Dorgan (Dem.-N.D.) got some good press from Huffington Post a couple of days ago; turns out