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Making some sense of $700 billion
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, October 6, 2008NYT Op-Eds (4)
"The 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race about “the future,” and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain" (Rich); "Watching Gov. Sarah Palin’s strenuously folksy debate performance, we could wonder when elite became a bad thing in America" (Dowd); "One of this season’s fallacies is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. Not so — the evidence is that he is facing what scholars have dubbed 'racism without racists'" (Kristof); "When the next president takes office, Americans should not be surprised when he spells out the ramifications of being a debtor nation" (Friedman)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, October 5, 2008
NYT (3): Economy
Free markets and the "end of hypercapitalism"; the end of an era on Wall Street; and an informative graphic showing the interconnections between various economic agencies.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, October 5, 2008
Dire economy steering Michigan voters to Obama
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, October 5, 2008The uphill battle to get a bailout
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, October 1, 2008The nation’s social bargain with the rich
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, September 30, 2008Topical depression
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, September 30, 2008Bailout rejection sends out financial shockwaves, but it’s also an invigorating moment for democracy
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, September 30, 2008NYT (6): Economy
Wall Street, R.I.P. (with accompanying graphics); "What's free about free enterprise?"; "A tally of federal rescues" (informative graphic); "What a president can - and can't - do to fix the economy"; "Deregulation wasn't all bad. Inaction was worse"; "As the crisis unfolded, the Web sites of troubled financial institutions seemed oblivious."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 28, 2008
Everybody Calm Down. A government hand in the economy is as old as the republic.
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, September 28, 2008Economics focus | Capital bonanzas | Economist.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, September 26, 2008NYT Op-Eds (3)
"The grown-up thing to do is to rescue the financial system. If Henry Paulson isn’t the grown-up we need, are Congressional leaders able to fill the role?" (Krugman); "What disappoints me about John McCain’s campaign is that he has no central argument. His proposals don’t add up to more than the sum of their parts" (Brooks); "Leaders and writers from around the world pose questions they’d like to hear John McCain and Barack Obama answer" (Various)Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 26, 2008
McCain’s Ploy
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, September 25, 200810 way to bail out Wall Street (and Main Street) without soaking taxpayers in debt
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, September 25, 2008NYT (4): Economy
Congress is unhappy with the bailout plan; Buffett invests $5 billion in Goldman Sachs; a possible end to outrageous compensation of Wall St. execs; and even the U.N. is outraged at the situation.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Lessons from the meltdown
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, September 24, 2008Wall Street’s man in Washington
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, September 24, 2008For The Love Of Money The following is based on When Corporations Rule the World - 2nd Edition : Information Clearing House - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, September 23, 2008NYT (3): Economy
A "pointed debate" in Congress; a "chilly review" from experts; and a cold (financial) shoulder from foreign nations.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, September 23, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (4)
When Paul Krugman and William Kristol agree, attention must be paid (Krugman: "Henry Paulson is demanding extraordinary power for himself to deploy taxpayers’ money on behalf of a plan that, as far as I can see, doesn’t make sense"; Kristol: "A friend serving in the Bush administration tried to talk me out of my doubts about the $700 billion financial bailout. I’m not convinced"); Roger Cohen explains the relationship between the recent Damien Hirst auction and the global economy; and a guest op-ed suggests that "The United Nations is falling short on helping the poorest countries converge with the rest of mankind."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, September 22, 2008
NYT (3): Economy
"The hissing sound you hear is the economy shrinking" (Bubblenomics); "Death and Near-Death Experiences on Wall St." (Flirting With Disaster); the effect of the economic meltdown on the stock ownership of many CEOs (The Shareholders at the Top).Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 21, 2008
Hanging the little guy out to dry
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, September 21, 2008NYT (5): International News
One of the worst-ever acts of terrorism in Pakistan kills 40 and injures 150, including Americans; Sarkozy fears France is next in global economic meltdown; Chavez expels Human Rights Watch workers; a Sunni group hacks and defaces an important Shiite website in Iraq; and Mbeki may be out in political coup.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, September 20, 2008
On climate, who will lead by example?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, September 20, 2008NYT Op-Eds (3)
"Faced with the financial crisis spinning out of control, much of Washington appears to have decided that government isn’t the problem, it’s the solution" (Krugman); "Everybody says we’re about to enter a new political era, rich in global financial regulation. The herd might just be wrong once again" (Brooks); "The Bush administration wants to undermine women’s rights and women’s health by placing ideology ahead of science" (Clinton, Richards)Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 19, 2008
