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Who Owns Detroit?
We Detroiters are now entering a period of turmoil that is quite different in character from the devastation of the last 40 years. The crisis we find ourselves in …
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Suffocating Austerity: The West’s Folly in Greece Repeats Old Patterns
The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pennsylvania Mayor Cuts Police and Firefighter Pay to Minimum Wage, and More
In today's On the News segment: Scranton, Pennsylvania's mayor cuts police and firefighter pay to minimum wage, record-breaking heat wave can no longer be dismissed as “just summer,” corporations …
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Restructuring Europe – for Whom?
The structural reform now being discussed in Europe would mean an even more neoliberal agenda.
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The Dirt on Erskine Bowles: The Tame Half of Bowles-Simpson
While Bowles may be able to control his temper and his vocabulary better than Simpson, those are not credentials for dictating the future of the Social Security and Medicare …
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After Five Years: Report Card on Crisis Capitalism
After five years of crisis - with no end in sight - it's time to evaluate what happened, why and what needs to be done.
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A Wall Street Gambling Tax: The Remedy to Inequality
Taxing Wall Street speculation is a great way to raise whatever money might be needed to meet deficit targets.
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Euro Fears Mount in Spite of Greek Election Results
Weekend election results in Greece did little to settle concerns about a Europe-driven global economic slowdown.
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The Greek Elections and the Future of John Maynard Keynes
In what is certainly the most closely watched election that Greece has ever had, the center-right New Democracy Party took nearly 30 percent of the vote, with SYRIZA rising …
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Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism
If you are Josef Ackermann heading up the Deutsche Bank, you earned an 8 million Euro bonus in 2012, because you successfully manipulated the past four years of economic …