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Ponzi Schemes and Revolving Doors
The conviction last week of hedge fund billionaire, Raj Rajaratnam, hasn't kept the stench of corruption on Wall Street from wafting all the way down to Washington. …
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News in Brief: Tensions Between Pakistan, US Heighten Following Air Raid, and More
Tensions Between Pakistan, US Heighten Following Air Raid According to NPR, Pakistan is furious with the United States following "what it called an airspace violation after NATO …
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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what's received in about two minutes of flying. The …
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Spitting in the Face of the Poor
Former Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia, speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Dear Readers, The right wing is playing its usual …
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Economic Statistics Explode Fantasies About Immigration
Several surveys about immigrants show that the French economy gets more out of immigrants than immigrants themselves receive. They might even have “absorbed” the social shock of the crisis.
A Tour of the Savage City With TJ English
The writer TJ English has just published “Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge.” On one level it is the story of three men living in …
Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?
President Barack Obama in the Blue Room of the White House standing with, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and General …
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New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis
The New York attorney general has requested information and documents in recent weeks from three major Wall Street banks about their mortgage securities operations during the credit boom, indicating …
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Doha Goes on Life Support
The impasse continues in the WTO's Doha negotiations, to the point that even the relentlessly optimistic Secretary General Pascal Lamy, after another deadline-driven search for concessions, admitted that there …
What a Public Bank Could Mean for California
California State Capitol, Sacramento. (Photo: Willem van Bergen) California is the eighth largest economy in the world, and it has a debt burden to match. The state …