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Saturday, March 20, 2010
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
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The best-selling 'Big Short' comes up short in its analysis of the financial crisis.
What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don’t they get?
Defaults and foreclosure rates still skyrocket; soon there will be more prime mortgages in arrears than subprime.
Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief.
Why is the response to the disaster in Haiti itself been such a disaster?
Don't expect Thanksgiving shopping to rescue an economy beset by unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures.
As calls for uprising against the practices of the big banks are being made, something else has begun to happen.
A recent study claimed “that the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression has been covered in the media."
Two of the largest portions of the stimulus pie in New York City area go to Medicaid and infrastructure projects.
Being a welcoming host for the G20 may not be enough. The summit will be judged by what it does.