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Wall Street Lies Blame Victims to Avoid Responsibility for Financial Meltdown By Nomi Prins, Wiley Press To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem. Read more » What Recession? As the Economy Crashed Around Them, 400 Richest Americans Lined Their Pockets with $30 Billion By Les Leopold, Huffington Post Their combined wealth is more than enough to insure the uninsured for the next twenty years or more. more » Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need By Zach Carter, AlterNet Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage. more » Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore on the Perils of Capitalism By Naomi Klein, The Nation Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness. more » Why "Economic Freedom" Is Just Another Way of Saying "Headed for a Cliff" By John Miller, Dollars and Sense Supposedly a tool for measuring financial autonomy, the Index of Economic Freedom does little more than usher in the same policies that caused our financial crisis. more » Lies and Statistics: What Does Our Obsession with Gross Domestic Product Obscure? By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth. more » Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting By Mark Ames, AlterNet Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage. more » Why Do We Idolize Wall Street Hustlers but Hold People Who Actually Make Things in Contempt? By Les Leopold, Huffington Post The manufacturing sector accounts for fewer and fewer jobs each year, so why should we give a damn about it? more » 5 Ways the Government Used Our Money to Save Big Banks and Screw Us By Nomi Prins, Christopher Hayes, The Nation The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened. more » To Democrats Who Voted to "Defund ACORN": Where's the Defund Blackwater Act? By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports The witch hunt against ACORN has moved forward while the Obama administration continues to contract with Blackwater, a firm whose criminal conduct is now legendary. more » Where's the Progressive Agenda for the Great Recession? By Les Leopold, AlterNet It's been AWOL thus far. more » Massive Parking Lot of Ghost Ships a Sign of the Econopocalypse By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Staggering sight .... more »

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