Finance_and_Economics

November 28, 2011

Children Victimized by Bank Meltdown

Touching look at homeless children.

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October 12, 2011

Correlation Between Reagan-ism Taking Our Government, Rising Inequality, Income Stagnation

Great graphic from Jeremy Nixon on G+ (click for his post)

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Why The American Economy is Messed Up

Henry Blodget (yes, that Blodget) just published a remarkable set of graphics on Business Insider that clearly demonstrates what has gone wrong with the American economy. 

I've seen versions of many before, some are new, but I've never seen all this data in one place before. 

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September 19, 2011

Google's Chairman: "Current Strategy is Ludicrous .. Government Must Stimulate Demand"

From ABC's Christian Ammanpour via Klein WaPo:

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September 15, 2011

How Too Big Banks Got That Way | Mother Jones

Government policies encouraged big bank consolidation, and now taxpayers are subsidizing the result. 

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September 13, 2011

Healthcare Competition ala Dr. Seuss

On the healthcare arms race by Gregory Warner at Marketplace via WonkBlog: 

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August 23, 2011

More Trickles Out on Wall Street Bail-Out

How many years will pass before we learn the full scope of the Wall Street melt-down and the Bush43/Obama44 bail-out of the rich? 

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Texas GOP's Jobs Miracle Funded by Federal Taxpayers

Anybody remember Bush43 running on his education miracle that was a chimera? Anybody?

Now, it's another evangelical extremists from Texas claiming a miracle, this one in jobs.

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August 19, 2011

Why GOP Wants De-Regulation?

We found out today one of the reasons Rep. Darrell Issa is perhaps the richest man in the legislature.

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August 08, 2011

As Wall Street Rows Away ...

No additional words needed ... 

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