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A Little Help From Your Friends: How Common Security Clubs Can Mend Our Social Fabric

A Little Help From Your Friends: How Common Security Clubs Can Mend Our Social Fabric

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 13, 2009.
As the activities of many are beginning to illustrate, conquering economic inequality means banding together.

48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. October 9, 2009.
He's never taken food stamps or other government assistance, and despite what his lifestyle may lead you to believe, he's certainly not crazy.

Turning Lead Into Gold: How CEOs'

Turning Lead Into Gold: How CEOs' "Performance Incentives" Are Screwing Everybody

Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. October 6, 2009.
A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.

Why

Why "Economic Freedom" Is Just Another Way of Saying "Headed for a Cliff"

John Miller, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2009.
Supposedly a tool for measuring financial autonomy, the Index of Economic Freedom does little more than usher in the same policies that caused our financial crisis.

Lies and Statistics: What Does Our Obsession with Gross Domestic Product Obscure?

Lies and Statistics: What Does Our Obsession with Gross Domestic Product Obscure?

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. September 28, 2009.
A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth.

5 Ways the Government Used Our Money to Save Big Banks and Screw Us

5 Ways the Government Used Our Money to Save Big Banks and Screw Us

Nomi Prins, Christopher Hayes, The Nation. September 26, 2009.
The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened.

New Study Exposes 2007 as the Year of the Super-Rich

New Study Exposes 2007 as the Year of the Super-Rich

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 18, 2009.
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

Joe Bageant, AlterNet. August 1, 2009.
Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.

How the Ultra-Rich Are Trying to Kill Health Reform

How the Ultra-Rich Are Trying to Kill Health Reform

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 25, 2009.
The wealthiest 1-percent have deployed an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super rich to help pay for health care.

Down Goes Another Bubble: A Conversation With Doug Henwood

Down Goes Another Bubble: A Conversation With Doug Henwood

Christian Parenti, The Brooklyn Rail. July 18, 2009.
Henwood, who publishes The Left Business Observer, discusses the global economic crisis with Christian Parenti.

What's Really Draining State Money?

What's Really Draining State Money?

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 8, 2009.
To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.

Rolling Stone Expose Declares Goldman Sachs Behind Every Market Crash Since 1920s

Rolling Stone Expose Declares Goldman Sachs Behind Every Market Crash Since 1920s

Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 4, 2009.
Matt Taibbi explains how the company created market bubbles and then profited from the crash that followed.

Obama's Economic Reforms Should Re-structure the System -- Not Just Reform It

Obama's Economic Reforms Should Re-structure the System -- Not Just Reform It

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 22, 2009.
We're dealing with a political elite that is more Clintonesque than Rooseveltesque. Will meaningful change be possible?

Have Geithner and Summers Seen the Error of Their Ways and What Does it Mean For Our Future?

Have Geithner and Summers Seen the Error of Their Ways and What Does it Mean For Our Future?

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 18, 2009.
Summers and Geitner finally condemned the Wall Street shenanigans they once abetted. But will this mean any real change in Obama's policy?

Naomi Klein: The Financial Crisis Presents a Huge Opportunity for Change -- We Can't Let Obama Blow It

Naomi Klein: The Financial Crisis Presents a Huge Opportunity for Change -- We Can't Let Obama Blow It

Naomi Klein, AlterNet. June 13, 2009.
There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.

The Great Debt Scare: Why Has It Returned?

The Great Debt Scare: Why Has It Returned?

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. June 12, 2009.
The government has to create larger deficits if the economy is to get anywhere near full capacity again.

Are Small Banks America's Next Cash Crop?

Are Small Banks America's Next Cash Crop?

Zach Carter, YES! Magazine. June 11, 2009.
As Americans pick up the economy's pieces, a few bankers are re-thinking the system.

After 100 Days, What Has The Stimulus Accomplished?

After 100 Days, What Has The Stimulus Accomplished?

Michael Grabell, ProPublica. June 1, 2009.
The White House released a report Friday on the economic stimulus' first three months.

California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Create Its Own Money

California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Create Its Own Money

Ellen Brown, AlterNet. May 27, 2009.
Gov. Schwarzenegger thinks CA can only get credit from DC, but there's another way of doing it that the prosperous state of North Dakota figured out.

Just When You Thought the Corporate Rip-Off Schemes Couldn't Get Any Worse...

Just When You Thought the Corporate Rip-Off Schemes Couldn't Get Any Worse...

David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. May 22, 2009.
Using employees' life insurance policies as a back-door way to pad the boss's salary ... wow.

Hey Obama, Is $100 Million a Lot of Money or Not?

Hey Obama, Is $100 Million a Lot of Money or Not?

David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2009.
I'm confused. Does the Obama administration think $100 million (or $165 million) is a lot of money or doesn't it?

GOP Pigs Stripped 'Flu Pandemic Preparedness' From Stimulus

GOP Pigs Stripped 'Flu Pandemic Preparedness' From Stimulus

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. April 27, 2009.
Republican politicking continues to put the whole nation at risk.

Mysterious Donor Gives Over $60 Million Dollars to Women-Led Colleges

Mysterious Donor Gives Over $60 Million Dollars to Women-Led Colleges

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 24, 2009.
Maude bless the donor, whoever it is.

Geithner and Summers Want More Debt Bubbles: The Result Could Be Catastrophic

Geithner and Summers Want More Debt Bubbles: The Result Could Be Catastrophic

Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009.
The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.

Who Should Resist, and Who Will Become Serfs?

Who Should Resist, and Who Will Become Serfs?

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009.
If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.