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Crazy Economists Are Still Defending The Wall Street Bailout As The Recession Gets Worse

Dean Baker, AlterNet. August 6, 2010.

Economists are still spinning fairy tales so they can celebrate bank bailouts. Too bad everybody's still broke and out of work.

"Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally F--k 'Em": How All of Us Pay for the Derivatives Market

Zach Carter, AlterNet. June 11, 2010.

Derivatives are a hotbed of abuses and bailouts. So why are taxpayers footing the bill?

Hold The Fed Accountable

William Greider, The Nation. May 13, 2010.

The Fed pumped trillions of dollars into Wall Street in secret. That's insane.

Wall Street Took Your House and Your Retirement, Now They're After Your Social Security

Ellen Hodgson Brown, TruthOut.org. March 5, 2010.

Wall Street tycoon Pete Peterson wants to bring IMF-style economic insanity to the U.S. The scary part? He might get away with it.

A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession

Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 3, 2008.

This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.

Bailout Inflated Big Banks While Screwing Main Street, TARP Inspector Says

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.

Feds Want to Axe Even More Homeowner Protections

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, December 31, 1969.