Crisis

Cowardly New World

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Dregulation Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Hank Paulson, Bail-Out, Fiscal Stimulus, Dollar Value, Crisis, Treasury Secretary, Recession, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

Are we rallying based on the idea that strings attached help and that heavy regulation will triumph over global recession and a public no better able to pay its bills?

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Spend Your Way Out of Debt America: The government's solution to Wall Street's crisis is--surprise, surprise-- borrowing more money.

David Sax | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Mortgage, Mccain, Federal Reserve, Economy, Crisis, Obama, Wall Street, Election, Deficit, Foriegn Loans, Federal Budget Deficit, US Dollar, China, Barack Obama, Business News
David Sax

For all the talk about the fundamentals of the American worker or $1000 tax rebates for middle class families, the candidates should really square up and talk about weaning America off the debt teat.

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Our Crisis is Not Economic and It's Beyond "Green"

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business

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Stephen C. Rose

The best way to understand the current economic crisis is to see that it is not economic. It is political, but even that designation is inadequate.

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Sam Stein

McCain Ad: Only We Can Fix The Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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How dramatically the tone of the presidential campaign has shifted in just a few days. Last week, it was John McCain who was hitting Barack Obama on c...

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True or False: Married People Healthiest, but Singles Catching Up

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living

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Bella DePaulo

Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.

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It's Not Oil Supply -- It's the High Fear Hype!

Steve Clemons | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

This debate over oil and energy policy disgusts me because both Obama and McCain are trying to force short term, knee jerk responses to a major policy challenge for the nation.

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Reverse Robin Hood: Stealing From the Poor to Give to the Rich

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

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Martin Bosworth

For true capitalism to work, there has to be a balance of free enterprise and accountable oversight. Everyone should be able to start at the same line and run the race according to their own skill and strength.

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Water: Early Warning for Conflict or Catalyst for Peace?

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Water, China, Peace, Tibet, Circle of Blue, Crisis, Glaciers, Climate Change, Mexico, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

On the Tibetan Plateau, where a whim of nature created the highest points on Earth, many of the world's major rivers are born. Each day their flows br...

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Hank Paulson: 2008 To Be A Difficult Year

Thomson Financial | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business

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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today warned that the US economy is not yet out of trouble, and said the combination of the housing correction, fi...

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My Conversation with Pete Peterson

Charlie Rose | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

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Charlie Rose

2008-04-03-charliepeterson.jpgPeterson discusses how he sees the current economic crisis, sovereign wealth funds, and his relationship with Blackstone co-founder and CEO, Steve Schwarzman.

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Reading The Pictures: Bear Stearns' Wanton Ambition

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

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Michael Shaw

2008-03-18-shaw_stearns.jpg I kid you not, this is the image from page 4 of the Bear Stearns 2000 Annual Report.

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We Didn't Do It!

Gerald Bracey | Posted 01.28.2008 | Home

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Gerald Bracey

American educators are, by and large, a passive bunch. Comes the lashing over our alleged failures and we mostly take a "this too shall pass," or an ...

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Deregulation and the Financial Crisis

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Housing Market, Subprime Mortgages, Finance, Stocks, Stock Market, Housing Bubble, Crisis, Business News
Robert Weissman

The current crisis is the predictable (and predicted) result of a massive U.S. housing bubble, which itself can be traced in part to global economic imbalances that could have been prevented.

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