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Bailing Out Out Wall Street: Deregulation of banking and finance was a reckless move, and DOUG HENWOOD has some ideas about a better bailout.
Doug writes for the Left Business Observer and The Nation, where his piece “Crisis of a Guilded Age” appears in the new issue.
Also: Why [...]
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The Wall Street Bailout: “Wall Street is vanishing before our eyes,” HAROLD MEYERSON says, and “Wall Street’s investment banks plainly deserve to die.” Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.
Plus: Echoes of Nixon in the McCain campaign: McCain’s transition [...]
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Wall Street’s Epic of Destruction: WILLIAM GREIDER of The Nation will comment
– he says “What is being swept away is the monumental arrogance of celebrated financiers, and the fraudulent gimmicks that created lots of new billionaires by selling bad paper to the world’s investors.”
Iraq: the Forever War. [...]
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Tracking polls show McCain taking the lead nationally in the last few days, and the ABC/Washington Post poll shows white women favoring McCain 52-41 since he picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The Obama camp points to the electoral vote polls which still show [...]
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“The Dark Side” – that’s where Dick Cheney said we would have to go to “achieve our objectives” in the White House’s war on terror. JANE MAYER has been investigating what “the dark side” really means. Her conclusion: “the dark side” violated the constitution and American [...]