On AlterNet: financial crisis
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "financial crisis"
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 29, 2008.
While we deliberate major economic transformation, there are good ideas waiting on the shelf right now the new president can green light.
Nouriel Roubini, Forbes. November 28, 2008.
The fight against a deadly combination of stagnation/recession and deflation has to be unorthodox.
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.
Rob Larson, AlterNet. November 26, 2008.
The obscenely wealthy still have enough money to buy massive super-yachts and overpriced art.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. November 26, 2008.
The Democrats have always sung "happy days are here again," but it doesn't seem to be the right song for these hard times.
Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, Foreign Policy in Focus. November 25, 2008.
Neglecting aid to the developing world, and fixating on the financial mess, will negatively affect Western nations.
Orion Kriegman, Richard Rosen, AlterNet. November 24, 2008.
The spiraling economy has forced the American consumer to halt and take stock. And that's a good thing.
William Greider, The Nation. November 22, 2008.
No more free money from Washington. No more masters of the universe. No more business as usual. Time for a banking holiday.
Antoaneta Bezlova, IPS News. November 21, 2008.
China’s wish for a world financial order less dominated by the United States and its dollar is giving way to a more urgent recession at home.
Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. November 21, 2008.
Congress might adjourn without acting on the deepening economic crisis, leaving Obama to inherit the catastrophe.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 20, 2008.
The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. November 19, 2008.
There are a lot of complicated plans being discussed, but sometimes the simplest solution to a problem is best.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008.
Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 17, 2008.
Lawmakers still haven't recognized danger of concentrated wealth to the economy.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 15, 2008.
The Bush-Paulson plan isn't doing anything to address the underlying problems threatening America's economic future.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 14, 2008.
Michael Moore's new documentary will tackle the financial crisis.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 14, 2008.
Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 13, 2008.
To govern effectively for the middle of America's economic ladder, Obama is going to have to take aim at the top.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 11, 2008.
The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans.
Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. November 10, 2008.
A crisis precipitated by the wealthy, and we're all getting stuck with the tab.
Robert Kuttner, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 7, 2008.
A new book shows how Obama needs to address the economic emergency, starting with practical help for families and individuals.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 6, 2008.
Barack Obama won the presidency after clearly saying that he wants to spread the wealth. Let's make him do it.
Naomi Klein, NaomiKlein.com. November 6, 2008.
Terrible looting of public capital has a habit of taking place during periods of dramatic political transition, and Bush has one underway.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 3, 2008.
Our economy didn't melt down, it was taken down the unbridled greed of economic elites, enabled by their political courtesans in Washington.
David Sirota, AlterNet. October 31, 2008.
The final stretch of the Presidential race has become an ideological proxy war between Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
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