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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine
Wall Street, New York. (Photo: SheepGuardingLlama) On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending …
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Robert Reich | The Remarkable Political Stupidity of Wall Street
Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making …
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Occupy Ourselves
In just a few short months we have reached a point of near saturation in which the modifier “Occupy” has been applied to almost every sphere of our beleaguered …
Obama Nurtures His Base With Green Buildings Initiative
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton listen as Gary Le Francois, senior vice president and director of engineering, leads them on a tour of the Transwestern Building …
Move Your Money, Change the System
Occupy LA - November 5, 2011, Bank Transfer Day. (Photo: too many jennifers) Inspired by the Occupy movements around the country, nearly two-thirds of a million Americans …
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EPA Links Tainted Water in Wyoming to Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas
Denver - Chemicals used to hydraulically fracture rocks in drilling for natural gas in a remote valley in central Wyoming are the likely cause of contaminated local water supplies, …
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In the Euro Zone, Looming Catastrophe (2)
In an online post titled “Self-Serving Myths of Europe’s Neo-Calvinists,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an editor at the British newspaper The Telegraph, sends us to a very good essay from the …
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American Christmas
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Taking Abortion Corporate
A pro-choice rally. (Photo: Jon Chiang) Long before Merle Hoffman found her niche as a provider of reproductive health care, she sought to be extraordinary. The question …
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, at a briefing at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, on May 27, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett …