On AlterNet: economic crisis
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "economic crisis"
Mike Lux, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. July 9, 2009.
We need a comprehensive policy package that is very simply focused on one thing and one thing only: jobs.
Agence France Presse June 21, 2009.
The economic weakness in the developing world after recent years of robust growth heightens the risks of social unrest and deepening poverty, according to the World Bank.
Charlie Cray, CorpWatch. June 17, 2009.
By failing to stoke popular support with a clear plan, Obama has for now effectively left Congress little choice but to dicker over the details.
Naomi Klein, AlterNet. June 13, 2009.
There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.
Poornima Gupta and Gilles Castonguay, Reuters June 10, 2009.
DETROIT/MILAN (Reuters) - Fiat SpA closed its acquisition of Chrysler's strongest assets on Wednesday, a key step in the Italian carmaker's ambitious plan to create a global player to ride out the worldwide auto sales downturn.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. June 9, 2009.
The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 11, 2009.
Obama is welcoming the health care lobby's Trojan Horse -- a pledge to cut the growth of costs to "only" 4.7 annually.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. May 6, 2009.
Maybe Congress will do something now...nah, probably not.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. May 1, 2009.
Economic stress is usually blamed, but a bunch of government-approved psychoactive drugs have proven homicidal and suicidal side effects.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 28, 2009.
Abandoned animals and "foreclosure pets" are the innocent victims of our financial downward spiral.
William Greider, The Nation. April 24, 2009.
What we are witnessing is a high-stakes melodrama of glandular politics. Will Obama roll over or fight back?
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 17, 2009.
John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of what passes for leadership in the Republican Party these days are in trouble.
Lagan Sebert, David Murdock, American News Project. April 16, 2009.
"Toxic assets" are actually mortgages and, by extension, houses and the people who are struggling to live in them.
Leslie Casimir, New America Media. April 16, 2009.
Domestic workers are the first to be let go as professionals tighten their household budgets in this recession.
Wesley Kendall, AlterNet. April 9, 2009.
The taxpayer and the drug user have become odd bedfellows, with the former losing its wealth and the latter its liberty.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. April 9, 2009.
Big Finance has persuaded Congress to allow banks to magically erase big losses on absurd mortgages with the stroke of a pen.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 8, 2009.
When Rupert Murdoch attacks!
Arthur MacEwan, Dollars and Sense. April 7, 2009.
Many fail to take sufficient account of the time lapses between one event and another.
Arun Gupta, Indypendent. April 6, 2009.
Economic contraction could provoke: confrontation between U.S. and China or an unraveling of the European Union.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 4, 2009.
Another tragedy unfolds.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: PEEK. April 3, 2009.
Economic distress might have been the thing that flipped this guy's sanity over to the dark side. And now people are dead.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 3, 2009.
"Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons has grown by about 5.3 million."
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad, AlterNet. April 3, 2009.
The governments of the largest economies in the world walked out of the summit with a plan that takes the global economy three big steps backwards.
Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.
Some expert talking points on an economy in crisis.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 2, 2009.
Republicans twisted themselves into pretzels opposing compensation limits to bank executives, despite the fact that 81% of Americans support it.
