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Economic Update: Capitalism, Critiques and Alternatives
Updates on defeats for Walmart, recovery for the tiny minority, Qatar royalty buys, and European moves to limit exec pay and tax financial transactions. Analysis of capitalism's history, its …
Job Growth Picks Up Steam in February
Employment rates of workers without high school degrees are near pre-recession levels.
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Sequester This! A Story of Sabotage and Theft
‘The sequester,’ like ‘the fiscal cliff’ and the ‘debt ceiling,’ is an intentionally crafted, make-believe crisis.
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Austerity: Another “Policy Mistake” Again
When will we attack the structural roots of crisis?
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Bad Ideas That Will Never Die
To paraphrase an old line about Vietnam, sometimes it seems to me like we haven't spent four years discussing the response to economic crisis; we've spent one year discussing …
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Basing Our Economy on Fossils Is Stupid
Researchers at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration report that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere underwent one of its largest single-year jumps ever in 2012.
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William Rivers Pitt: The Sequester is Good for You, and Other GOP Lies
William Rivers Pitt: This is all happening because the GOP would have us all believe that the country is broke.
QE for the People: Comedian Beppe Grillo’s Populist Plan for Italy
Unilateral default on the public debt and nationalization of the banks could actually save the Italian economy.
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Noam Chomsky: Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?
There is capitalism and then there is really existing capitalism.
The Lowdown in Portlandia: Austerity Versus a People’s Budget
Portlandu2019s Mayor Charlie Hales has announced that there is a $25 u2013 $40 million hole in the cityu2019s budget.