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Economic Update: Learning From History
Updates on key economic causes of Obamacare difficulties, risks of global deflation, Madrid's garbage strike, and the $13 billion settlement with JP Morgan Chase. Interview with Prof Sheila D. …
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CEOs Against Grandmas
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security.
US History Repeats Itself With Guest Worker Programs
Stories of abuse by employers from veterans of the Bracero Program demonstrate what is wrong with current US immigration
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The Dollar Will Be All Right
What is the US dollar's international role? Paul Krugman explains.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty Is the Complete Opposite of “Free Trade“
The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations.
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Boeing Blackmails Washington Workforce on 777X Production
Boeing is threatening to move production of the huge new 777X out of Washington to avoid the union.
Trading Women for Profit
The capitalist mindset that breeds mass inequality across the country is partly to blame for women who are made vulnerable to human trafficking.
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The People Can Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Time to end the failed experiment with rigged corporate trade and put in place fair trade for the people and planet before profits.
TPP Exposed: WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Text to Rewrite Copyright Laws, Limit Internet Freedom
WikiLeaks has published the secret text to part of the biggest US trade deal in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests
Kevin Zeese: Obama administration's Fast Track authority plan derailed by bipartisan outrage.