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Ask Dr. Dollar: Do We Have to Bail Out Big Firms Like Bear Stearns?

Arthur MacEwan, Dollars and Sense. May 21, 2008.
When large financial firms like Bear Stearns fail, the impacts can be very far reaching.

Bernanke's Federal Reserve Freakout

Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. May 14, 2008.
Call it a subdued, bankerly freakout.

The Fed Packages Corruption as Sound Public Policy

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. March 21, 2008.
Once again, the Fed is using a crisis to enrich corporate interests.

Corporate Think Tanks: Recession Ain't All That Bad!

Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2008.
All those worries about economic hardship are just more liberal media myths.

Bad Mouthing De-regulation

Ralph Nader, Nader.org. January 19, 2008.
The assault on regulation over the past quarter century caused a mortgage collapse that is producing hundreds of thousands of foreclosures.

The Fed, The Enabler

Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe. September 24, 2007.
For more than two decades, the Federal Reserve has been prime enabler of a dangerously speculative economy.

Housing Bubble Pops; It's Recession Time

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. September 12, 2007.
The growth of the housing bubble made this sort of collapse inevitable, just as the crash of the stock bubble was inevitable.