On AlterNet: financial collapse

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Is Ireland Set to Follow the Asian Tigers Over the Cliff of Globalized Capitalism?

Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus. December 21, 2010.

With easy access to euro-market funds, banks like Anglo Irish lent huge amounts to prominent Irish developers, leading to a frenzy of overdevelopment.

Global Economic Collapse Means Boom Times for Criminal Syndicates

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. April 7, 2009.

In a world on the brink, we must offer a global stimulus or else face an epidemic of global crime.

The Fallacy of the 401(k)

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. October 14, 2008.

401(k)s are the contemporary version of the get-rich-quick scheme. They place retirement in the shaky hands of the market.

Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression II

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect. September 18, 2008.

Free-market extremists brought us this needless economic collapse. Here's a rundown of the mistakes we've made and the reforms we need now.