On AlterNet: economic meltdown
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "economic meltdown"
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 18, 2009.
Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
Dylan Headley, AlterNet. July 11, 2009.
Wing-nut commentary about the crisis blames the victims. As if things weren't already bad enough.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. February 23, 2009.
The GOP and the business community are waging a short-sighted battle against well-paid workers, the very people they need to rescue the economy.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 30, 2009.
Now is the winter of our economic discontent.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. January 29, 2009.
Pushed past their breaking points, people are robbing banks to pay the rent, setting homes on fire -- even taking their own lives.
Danny Shea, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 26, 2009.
Citigroup, which has received $45 billion in government bailout funds, is about to upgrade to a new $50 million, twelve-seat corporate jet.
Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 21, 2009.
Lost among all the excitement and pomp of yesterday was the fact that bank stocks dropped yesterday in the worst Inauguration Day drop in history.
Andy Stern, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 13, 2009.
Even after the collapse of the myth of the market, conservatives are still waging class warfare on the rest of us.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. January 9, 2009.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has been a frequent critic of President-elect Obama.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 9, 2009.
Have you heard what's going on with the government's almost trillion-dollar bailout and how your money is being spent?
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 11, 2008.
Bankrupting Detroit could trigger a global economic meltdown.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 11, 2008.
Labor Department reports this morning show new claims for unemployment benefits hit 573,000 last week, the highest level in 26 years.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 8, 2008.
We may be headed for Depression era soup lines at warp speed.
Brad, Sadly, No! AlterNet: PEEK. December 7, 2008.
Say, how's the bailout going?
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. December 7, 2008.
The f***ing-off into oblivion cannot happen quickly enough.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 5, 2008.
533,000 jobs lost is the worst in a single month since December 1974.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 27, 2008.
Unemployment is soaring and it may be March before we feel the first dollar of an Obama recovery plan.
Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. November 26, 2008.
Barry Ritholtz puts the current bailout figures in a historical perspective ... and it ain't pretty folks.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. November 21, 2008.
Yet another parallel between 2008 and 1932. Who Is in Charge?
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2008.
There is no technical support below 8K, so where it ends now is not known.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 14, 2008.
Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal.
Robert Bryce, CounterPunch. October 10, 2008.
Given the countless warnings that came via Bush's decadent approach to government and regulation, there should be zero surprise we'd be robbed blind.
Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 6, 2008.
The current bailout is costing us only a third of what we pay each year for chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. October 1, 2008.
Forcing each American to fork over $2,200 at a time when median family income has declined by as much is no way to improve the economy.
Stirling Newberry, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2008.
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