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Economic Update: Economic Codependency
Major discussions of a new book on China-US codependency and how and why our economic system works and breaks down.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Mounting Contradictions
Updates on: The Rhode Island Senate rewarding firms limiting inequality; recession-driven increases in suicide rates; opposition to the Dodd-Frank Act; and more.
Economic Update: Economic Side Effects
Updates on: Walmart's Mexican bribes; car loans turning bad; state taxes; and more.
Economic Update: Myths of Capitalist Efficiency
Updates on Maya Angelou; Chilean students' victory; Detroit's plan to demolish 40,000 houses; and housing market realities.
A Bailout Botched by Centrists
Eisinger says, Obama went wrong in even appointing Geithner, who, as a former head of the New York Federal Reserve under President Bush, linked him politically to the status …
To Repair the Environment, Rehabilitate the Body Politic
"Environmentalists aren't wrong to urge us to break with fossil fuels. The balance of nature has been tipped and there's no question we're weakening the system with our bad …
Economic Update: Fake Competition, Real Cooperation
Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers' class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting.
Economic Update: Yet More Big Bank Misdeeds
Updates on US sanctions against Putin's aides; relative decline in US median disposable income; a stunning "accounting error" by Bank of America; and clever manipulation of US regulators by …
Economic Update: Corporations, Wages and Jail
Updates on no growth in the US; China overtakes the US; the costs of the GM bailout; defeat of the bill to raise minimum wage while Hawaii raises its …
Economic Update: Shameful Economics
Updates on Alabama prison/slave labor; automobile irrationalities; the California drought; and more.