Will Obama Gut Social Security? | Gold Fever Nonsense | Suprisingly Strong Banking Nominees
Obama Packs Debt Commission with Social Security Looters Obama has filled his new ‘debt commission’ with Wall Street insiders determined to gut Social Security.READ MORE Matthew Skomarovsky / AlterNet Have You Caught Gold Fever? The Value of That Shiny Metal Is as Artificial as Paper Money The economic doomsters and investment advisers are engaged in a collective hallucination when they see growing value in gold. READ MORE Scott Thill / AlterNet Obama’s New Banking Nominees Have Surprisingly Progressive Creds After a series of poor economic appointments, Obama is considering three strong candidates for posts at the Fed. READ MORE Zach Carter / AlterNet Dems Might Pass Financial Reform That Does Nothing to Protect from Big Threats to Our Economy The current legislation Dems are proposing would achieve nothing on the macro issues that threaten our economy. READ MORE
By Simon Johnson / The Baseline Scenario NYT Public Editor Finally Admits ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Reporting Failure: ‘Times Was Wrong’ Clark Hoyt says in Sunday column ‘editors considering correction’ and concedes paper ‘should have’ covered report finding no criminality in ‘heavily edited’ sting videos. READ MORE
By Brad Friedman / Brad Blog Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist? We need to take a look at what forces in American society are preventing people from being able to resist tyranny and dehumanization. READ MORE
By Joan Brunwasser, Bruce E. Levine / OpEdNews.com The industrial age built on and propelled by fossil fuels is coming to an end. What replaces it is at the center of our fight for survival. READ MORE
By Jeremy Rifkin / Tarcher/Penguin Hightower: Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit How billionaires’ money took over Washington — and created the mobs who rant against reform. READ MORE
By Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown How the IRS Helps H&R Block Scam Taxpayers Tax preparation giants are making a killing on short-term, high-interest, fee-laden loans on tax returns. READ MORE
By Alexander Zaitchik / AlterNet George Lakoff’s 14 Words That Could Fix California The minority rules in the California Legislature, and they’re responsible for the state’s budget logjam — linguist George Lakoff has an elegant solution to fix it. READ MORE
By Daniela Perdomo / AlterNet Michael Lewis Takes Us Face to Face with the Investors Who Cashed in on the Financial Collapse Michael Lewis’s new book The Big Short and Joe Stiglitz’s Freefall expose how the winners cheat and cheaters win in the American economy. READ MORE
By G. Pascal Zachary / San Francisco Chronicle Obama’s US Top Cop for Banks Wants Less Regulation, Echoes Republican Wall St. Pals Republicans are taking an unpopular stand with Wall Street. Dems need to have the guts to stand up against them both. READ MORE
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