Truthout
Recession
The Golden Dawn Murder Case, Larry Summers and the New Fascism
By banning Golden Dawn, the ruling parties in Greece are distracting the public from their own involvement in the crime.
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Direct Democracy in ReykjavÃk: The Wisdom of the Icelandic Crowd-Sourcers
Attention has focused on the country's steps towards a crowd-sourced constitution, its revolutionary internet privacy and freedom of press laws, alongside Better Reykjavu00edk.
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How 401(k)s Rewarded the Rich and Turned the Rest of Us into Big Losers
In 2007, the financial crisis destroyed Americau2019s retirement fantasy.
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Should Poor People Eat? Let’s Hear From Both Sides!
Either there was a massive economic collapse, or people are cheating the government. Who's to say which side is right?
Shocking New Research Reveals Obama’s Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons
Inequality experts Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez reveal the biggest gap between rich and poor ever recorded by economists
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Remember When People Had Pensions?
America's corporate chiefs deserve all their hefty rewards, we're told, because they take hefty risks. And what exactly are these richly rewarded corporate chiefs putting at risk? Our retirement …
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JOBS: It’s That Simple!
The plutonomy of the wealthy may be booming, but in the realonomy where ordinary Americans live and work times are still tough.
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If It Takes Blocking a Bank Door With Your Body to Keep Your Home, Would You Do It?
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener puts faces to the facts of the subprime mortgage crisis; specifically the faces of black Americans, who are bearing the brunt of the …
Abracadabra, You’re a Part-Timer: How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
demystify the sleight-of-hand by which good jobs were transformed into bad jobs, full-time workers with benefits into freelancers with nothing, during the dark days of the Great Recession.
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud
The concept of a do-it-yourself retirement was a fraud.