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With Rates Low, Banks Increase Mortgage Profit
Interest rates on mortgages and refinancing are at record lows, but do not celebrate just yet, they could be lower.
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Credit to Small Enterprises: The Silent Crisis
Because the financial sector competes with the rest of the economy for scarce resources, financial booms are not, in general, growth-enhancing.
Noam Chomsky: Elections (Part One)
MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky on the electoral process in America.
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America’s Ten Largest Corporations Paid Nine Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year
How much did you have to pay in taxes last year? The country's biggest corporations only had to pay nine percent.
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Bill Clinton Blasts Romney’s “Disappointing” New Welfare Claim
Clinton called Romney's charge against Obama's alleged plan to gut welfare reform
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Romney’s Shifty Economic Plan: The First Challenge Is Believing It
Dave Johnson breaks down the Romney economic plan to show how many Americans stand to lose it all.
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A Legislative Model for Dismantling Debtors’ Prisons
Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.
How to Pay for Single Payer Health Insurance, Part Three
This is a continuation of our series of interviews looking at single-payer or government-run health insurance plan and focusing particularly on Maryland.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
In today's On the News segment:Â The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …
The Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in the Private Sector
The reelection of Governor Scott Walker merely confirmed what trade unionists should already understandu2014laboru2019s current strategies have little chance of success. In the post election soul-searching, labor analysts have …