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How Long Will Japan’s Nuclear Recess Be? Enter Kazakhstan
Environmental victories are so scarce these days that you can’t blame eco-activists for trumpeting any good news — even when the news turns out to be mostly smoke and …
Chomsky: Occupy Wall Street “Has Created Something That Didn’t Really Exist” in US – Solidarity
Well, the Occupy movement isu2014it was a big surprise. You know, if anybody asked me a year ago,
A New Economic Paradigm: An Interview With Gar Alperovitz
If you look deeply, there are lots of elements that begin to form a mosaic, I think, potentially suggesting the direction of an America beyond capitalism and also beyond …
Two Billion Dollar Tip of Banking Iceberg
The latest debacle now is JPMorgan Chase has apparently lost at least $2 billionu2014I stress at least, 'cause it's still not fully known, the scope of this, and it's …
Quebec Students Demand Education as a Right, Continue Strike
Thousands of students across Quebec continue their strike. More than 170,000 students are on strike. A deal that was tentatively agreed to by some of the student leadership over …
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Why We Have a Deficit
Deficit theater is coming to DC tomorrow, with a well-funded "fiscal summit." The plot summary is that we have Deficit Trouble - Right Here In River City! so to fix it we need …
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Capitalism Is Taboo in America
For the last half-century, capitalism has been a taboo subject in the United States. Among politicians, journalists, and academicsu2014and in public conversation generallyu2014the word has been avoided or else …
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Regression to the Mean, JPMorgan Edition
I haven’t been writing about the JPMorgan debacle because, well, everyone else is writing about it. One theme that has stuck out for me, however, has been everyone’s reflexive …