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Economic Update: A Journalist’s Perspective
Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senator Leads Fight to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act, and More
Apple CEO Tim Cook was questioned in a Congressional Hearing about his company's complex scheme to avoid paying taxes; for a third year in a row, the average CEO …
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Japan Gets Tough
To almost everyoneu2019s surprise, Japan u2014 Japan! u2014 has emerged as the advanced country most willing to break with austerian orthodoxy and try a combination of aggressive monetary and …
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Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers …
Austerity Comes to America
Gerald Friedman: The ghost of bad austerity economics continues to haunt - and even to drive - the living.
Teach Your Children Well: Don’t Play Monopoly
You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner.
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Economists Unleash a Reign of Error
Paul Krugman: The Great Recession has brought us back into a world of persistent inadequate demand that has unleashed a sort of reign of error among anti-Keynesian economists and …
How America Became a Third World Country
America is investing in war in distant lands as it crumbles here at home.
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Why Inequality Is a Problem and Growth a Red Herring
Salvatore Babones: To the inequality and growth debate, I say - who cares!
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Chris Hedges: We, the Vast Underclass, Must Rise Up Against Global Mafia – or Die
It's time to build radical mass movements that defy all formal centers of power and make concessions to none.