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Wall Street Executives Made $3 Billion Before Crisis »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Wall Street' s five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the ...
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Interview with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus says that greed has destroyed the world's financial system. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about the profit motive ...
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Obama seeks delay in voter fraud investigation »
Posted by: RedRiverJ 3 weeks, 3 days ago in News
Barack Obama's presidential campaign is pressuring the Department of Justice to put off a probe of voter registration fraud allegations leveled against the now ...
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Kevin Phillips on Bill Moyer's Journal »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Bill Moyers sits down with former Nixon White House strategist and political and economic critic Kevin Phillips, whose latest book BAD MONEY: RECKLESS FINANCE, FAILED ...
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Former AIG CEO to sell $1 billion worth of stock after bailout »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
OK, now this is what ****** off everyone with the bailout. The government propped up AIG and now the former CEO (who is still being charged ...
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A Bunch of Bailout Comments »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
The obvious alternative to a bailout is letting troubled financial institutions declare bankruptcy. Bankruptcy means that shareholders typically get wiped out and the creditors own ...
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This Economy Does Not Compute »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
A few weeks ago, it seemed the financial crisis wouldn' t spin completely out of control. The government knew what it was doing — at least ...
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The Art of Politics »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
So what we have here is a rescue plan that essentially gives all the speculators a bailout and puts the bad debts in the custody ...
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Wall Street tumbles amid global sell-off »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street tumbled today, joining a selloff around the world as fears grew that the financial crisis will cascade through economies globally ...
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15.6% of Canadians Can't Be Wrong »
Posted by: populist 1 month ago in Politics
Canada's total estimated population is 33,311,389. This means that just 15.6% of the Canadian people actually consented to the rule of ...
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Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits »
Posted by: pagey 1 month ago in News
The family of a dead elderly woman cremated her remains on a makeshift barbecue and continued collecting her retirement checks amounting to more than $25 ...
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Hospital CEO arrested in probe of homeless scheme »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 1 week ago in News
A Los Angeles hospital top executive was arrested Wednesday as federal agents raided three medical centers while investigating an alleged scheme to recruit homeless people ...
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Fed Pumps Cash Into System as World Financial Markets Fall »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Stocks took a steep dive around the world today as troubles in the European financial sector offset news that lawmakers had reached a hard-fought consensus ...
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GOP Strategy: Voter Suppression »
Posted by: hyperbola 4 weeks, 1 day ago in Politics
In the 2000 Presidential election, reporter Greg Palast, author of "The Best Democracy Money can Buy," broke the story of Florida's illegal voter purges ...
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Obama camp calls for special prosecutor in fraud investigation »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 1 month ago in Politics
The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to ...
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