The Fed is in a bind. No matter which way it turns, utter failure is a risk. Putting more money into the system risks no less than the dollar itself. Stopping...
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Even if we got rid of corporate welfare subsidies for big oil, big agriculture, and big Pharma – even if we cut back on our bloated defense budget – it...
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Veterans For Peace Endorses the April 15th Rally and Protest in Union Square Park Veterans For Peace has joined in endorsing “Sounds of Resistance,” a...
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By Wendell Potter - Democrats who think Paul Ryan and his Republican colleagues have foolishly wrapped their arms around the third rail of American politics by...
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Dear Mr. Leader: I am writing to update you on the Treasury Department’s projections regarding when the statutory debt limit will be reached and to inform...
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The Federal Reserve is committed not to the health and wealth of citizens, but to that of the international banking system. New information on lending programs...
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In 1986, Richard Kimball, a Democratic state legislator in Arizona, was running for a US Senate seat. In a televised debate, he did something that absolutely...
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They've been hinting at doing this and I guess they're finally going public with it. Get ready for a real big Revolt because Polls have consistently shown...
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Chips are disappearing from bags, candy from boxes and vegetables from cans. As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers...
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Our public debt – now at around $14 trillion dollars ($14,233,559,283,692.40 as of this writing, to be precise) – has been in the news lately, but how we...
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The five biggest US mortgage servicers were told this week at a private meeting with regulators to consider paying delinquent borrowers up to $21,000 each as part of...
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General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion...
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Is the Group of Twenty Countries (G20) envisaging the creation of a Global Central bank? Who or what would serve as this global central bank, cloaked with the power...
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Wall Street at least temporarily relieved of the burden of having to buy Treasuries & Agency bonds, is looking at the jump in oil prices as nothing more than an...
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Ack! Just when you didn't think the mortgage crisis could get any worse, you learn that there is a database in Reston, Virginia that might have eaten your...
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It is not just the United States that is headed for an economic collapse. The truth is that the entire world is heading for a massive economic meltdown and the...
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Commentary: Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeed. Taibbi’s right, everyone knows Wall Street’s run by a bunch of dictators who...
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Many discussions of lies that launch wars quickly come around to the question "Well then why did they want the war?" There is usually more than one single...
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In the past few weeks, dysfunctional societies have become a very popular theme. So what makes them dysfunctional? Is it just about physical and mental suppression,...
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In truth, almost all pensions are a lie. The pension that comes to mind for most of us in the US is Social Security. A tax is deducted from our paychecks to fund...
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