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March 15, 2010
3/12/10 Kroll, MoJo, Ponzi Nation
3/15/10 Folarin, FPIF, Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti
3/15/10 Cassidy, FT. Lessons from the collapse of Bear Stearns
March 12, 2010
3/1/10 Trumbull, CSM, Lehman Bros. Used Accounting Trick Amid Financial Crisis - and Earlier
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 Nasiripour, Huffington, Senators Target Wall Street, With Goldman Sachs in Mind
3/11/10 Goldfarb, WP, Politics, shaky economy create no rush to restructure Fannie and Freddie
3/10/10 Chan, NYT, TARP Panel Finds Fault With GMAC Bailouts
3/11/10 Semuels, LAT, Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
3/11/10 EDIE, Green skills shortage highlighted by report
3/11/10 CNN, Kansas City board OKs plan to close nearly half of schools
3/11/10 BBC, Chinese inflation hits 16-month high
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Farrell, Deep Journal, Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain
3/10/10 Roberts, Guardian, The debt that lies beneath
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 BBC, Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts
March 5, 2010
3/05/10 Leonard & Vives, LAT, One sector that benefits from a bad economy: jail inmates
3/05/10 Snyder, IntelDaily, The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government Is Out - America's Economic Goose Is Cooked
3/05/10 Naminpour, Deep Journal, Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Says Federal Reserve System 'Corrupt'
3/05/10 Quinn, Telegraph, US Public 'Will Pay Obama's $90bn Bank Levy'
3/05/10 Mason, Progressive, One year after stimulus, blacks and Latinos still struggling
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 Wee, Deep Journal, "Real" Unemployment Could Surge to 25%, Portfolio Manager Says
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Hampson, USA Today, New Ghost Towns: Industrial Communities Teeter on the Edge
3/02/10 Cramer, MoJo, A Five-Step Guide To Real Financial Reform
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Goldstein, NPR, Warren Buffett Explains The Genius Of The Float
2/26/10 Kaufmann, Nation, Profiting from the Inside? Friedmanism at the Fed
3/01/10 Jacobs, Wired, Microfinance Project Could Be New Kiva For Haiti's Diaspora
3/01/10 BBC, UK banks see surge in bad debts
February 28, 2010
2/28/10 Luhby, CNN, Extended jobless benefits start ending
2/28/10 Bowers, OpenLeft, National Crisis Electoral Flowchart
February 25, 2010
2/26/10 Goldstein, NPR, AIG: Still Losing Money!
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 Reuters, Bernanke says rates to stay low for long time
2/24/10 Hernandez, NYT, New-Home Sales at a Low in U.S.
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Eder & Stempel, Reuters, Wall Street bonuses jumped 17 percent last year
2/23/10 Elliott, Guardian, Too soon to cut public spending, IMF warns
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 van Duynin, FT, Concern about FDIC's proposals
2/22/10 DeGraw, Public Record, Part IV: The Financial Coup d'Etat: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA
2/22/10 Andrews, ProPublica, A Fuzzy Definition of 'Home' Proves Lucrative for Calif. Lawmakers
2/22/10 Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Judge reluctantly allows Bank of America to settle with SEC
February 20, 2010
2/20/10 Lambert, Reuters, Bad Economies in States to Worsen: Governors
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Mason, Reuters, Obama unveils new fund to address housing woes
2/19/10 Davies, Guardian, The great economics rift reopens
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Guardian, The National Geographic archives: Agriculture in Ecuador Video
2/18/10 Yousuf, CNN, Jobless claims rise unexpectedly
2/18/10 Pollin, Nation, 18 Million Jobs by 2012
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 Branigan, Guardian, hina sells $34.2bn of US treasury bonds
2/17/10 Dillon, NYT, Plan Would Let Students Start College After 10th Grade
2/17/10 Kaiser Foundation, Additional 4M People In Asia Could Fall To 'Extreme Poverty' Level This Year, Report Says
2/17/10 Rappeport, DeepJournal, Lone voice warns of debt threat to Fed
2/17/10 Houreld, AP, UN says US aid restrictions hurting hungry Somalis
2/17/10 Lewin, NYT, Study Finds Public Discontent With Colleges
February 16, 2010
2/16/10 Costello, NPR, $1 Trillion State Pension Gap
2/16/10 Zavis & Gorman, LAT, Proposed cuts would end California assistance for most new legal immigrants
2/16/10 Puzzanghera & Lee, LAT, New wave of foreclosures by end of 2010 is feared
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Nation, 'The Cleveland Model': Democracy, Community, and Economic Vision
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Goes Rogue - Special European Audit To Follow
2/14/10 ElBoghdady & Merle, WP, Refinancing unavailable for many borrowers
February 13, 2010
2/13/10 Story et al, NYT, Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis
February 12, 2010
2/12/10 Lendman, IntelDaily, Study shows working families choose between shelter, medical care and food
2/12/10 Botari, Bankster USA, Goldman Accused of Rigging 'Robin Hood Tax' Vote
2/12/10 Hayes, Nation, The Breakdown: Stimulus Wins and Losses
2/12/10 Baumann, MoJo, Subprime Goes Hollywood
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 Kenney, NPR, Foreclosures Up 15 Percent From January 2009
2/11/10 Fekete, Asia Times, When money refuses to flow uphill
February 10, 2010
2/10/10 Vistesen, Guardian, Keeping the eurozone afloat
2/10/10 CNN, Greek workers strike as government tightens belt
2/10/10 BBC, US trade deficit widens as imports outpace exports
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Costantini, IPS, Fighting Off Looters in the Ruins of Wall Street
2/09/10 Baker, AlterNet, False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Why Banks Love Foreclosure
2/09/10 Kroll, MoJo, Resources for Dealing With Mortgage Servicers
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 Christie, Bloomberg, Geithner Says U.S. Will 'Never' Lose Aaa Debt Rating
2/08/10 Gail, Oil Drum, Delusions of Finance: Where We are Headed
2/08/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Bowcott, Guardian, Thousands to lose jobs as universities prepare to cope with cuts
2/07/10 Elliott, Guardian, G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
1/30/10 Reilly, Bloomberg, Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: Bloomberg
2/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Europe Risks Another Global Depression
2/07/10 BBC, UK economy 'faces crisis' warns former IMF economist
February 6, 2010
2/06/10 Grey, WSWS, Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
2/06/10 Faiola, NYT, Debt crisis unsettles European economy
February 1, 2010
2/01/10 Hodai, ITT, The Strange Fruit of Desperation
January 29, 2010
1/29/10 Reuters, Bin Laden urges abandoning dollar: Al Jazeera tape
January 28, 2010
1/28/10 Jones, ProPublica, Identity of Americans with Secret UBS Accounts May Remain Secret
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 Elliott, Guardian, Soros warns of double-dip recession
1/27/10 Hall & Gordon, McClatchy, Geithner, predecessor and Fed defend controversial AIG payments
1/27/10 Walsh, NYT, Geithner Denies Role in Limiting A.I.G. Disclosures
1/27/10 Pierce, ProPublica, Colorado and New Hampshire's Unemployment Insurance Funds Go Bankrupt--And Start Borrowing
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 Grey, WSWS, Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets
1/26/10 DeParle, NYT, Families Struggle to Afford Food, Survey Finds
1/26/10 Williams, Boston Globe, From Books to Boot Camp: College Grads Increasingly Joining Military
January 25, 2010
1/25/10 Cho et al, WP, Stakes are high as government plans exit from mortgage markets
1/25/10 NPR, Watch: 'Fear The Boom And Bust'
1/25/10 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Tim Geithner Says to Leave Your Money at Big Banks
January 24, 2010
1/24/10 Baseline Scenario, Is The "Volcker Rule" More Than A Marketing Slogan?
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Semuels, LAT, California's unemployment rate rises to 12.4%
1/22/10 Hightower, AlterNet, Bernanke Wants Even More God-Like Powers for the Federal Reserve
1/22/10 Hecht, SacBee, Court removes state limit on medical marijuana possession
1/22/10 Maisano, ITT, States of Pain
1/22/10 Lavandera, CNN, Big city left with no bookstore
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 AP, Goldman Sachs earns $4.79 billion in fourth quarter
1/21/10 BBC, Goldman Sachs says profit in 2009 up sharply
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 Costello, NPR, U.S. Mayors: Jobless Rate To Remain High For Years
1/20/10 BBC, Chinese lending fears hit bank shares
January 19, 2010
1/19/10 Kiel, ProPublica, Logjam Continues for Loan Mods; Big Banks Fare Poorly, Data Show
1/19/10 Plummer, BBC, Venezuela's economy in further slide
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 Doward, Guardian, Eastern European immigration 'has hit low-paid Britons'
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Chung & Guerrara, FT, SEC subpoenas big banks over CDOs
1/16/10 Protess, HuffingtonPost, The Financial 'Black Box': What's Still Hidden In AIG's Files?
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Whitfield, TruthOut, Global Auction of Public Assets
1/15/10 Kaufman, Nation, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Turns Up the Heat
1/15/10 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples
1/15/10 Reuters, Zoellick says crisis effects will last for years
January 14, 2010
1/14/10 AP, Foreclosures set a grim record in 2009
1/14/10 Leondis & Plungis, Bloomberg, Krawcheck Says 53% of Wealthy Fear Outliving Savings
January 12, 2010
1/12/10 BBC, Federal Reserve makes record $52.1bn profit
1/12/10 BBC, US trade gap widens sharply as imports grow
1/12/10 Clark, Guardian, Wal-Mart, the US Retailer Taking Over the World by Stealth
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Estep, Kentucky.com, Thousands of jobs could be created in renewable-fuels industry
1/11/10 Mufson, WP, In China, fear of a real estate bubble
1/11/10 Simms, Guardian, Nine meals from anarchy
1/11/10 Evans-Prtichard, Telegraph, America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels
January 10, 2010
1/10/10 Tucker, FT, Insurers rush to strike Asian deals
1/10/10 PublicRecord, AIG's Backdoor Bailout Revealed
1/10/10 Leopold, AP, For the Unemployed, New Job Often Means a Pay Cut
1/10/10 Al Jazeera, China becomes biggest exporter
1/10/10 Aizenman, WP, Immigrants invest in U.S. businesses in exchange for visas
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 Eley, WSWS, US loses 85,000 jobs in December
1/09/10 Nichols, Nation, The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment
1/09/10 BBC, Schwarzenegger unveils California budget cuts
January 8, 2010
1/08/10 Taylor, IntelDaily, Black America's economic freefall
1/08/10 Elliott, Guardian, US fears double-dip recession with rising job losses
1/08/10 Ahrens & Musgrove, WP, Rising gas prices could be a drag on economic recovery
1/08/10 Smith, Sac Bee, Sacramento, Central Valley bankruptcy filings soar to all-time high
1/08/10 Perdomo, AlterNet, U.S. One of Two Countries Where Kids' Educational Attainment is Lower Than Their Parents'
1/08/10 Saturen, ITT, Losing Liberal Arts
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Hoenig Talks Sense On Casino Banks
1/07/10 Gorman, LAT, UCLA study says legalizing undocumented immigrants would help the economy
1/07/10 Haughney, NYT, Further Slide Seen in N.Y. Commercial Real Estate
1/07/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Fed delayed disclosure of controversial AIG payout
1/07/10 Barr, CNN, The AIG fiasco keeps getting worse
1/07/10 Klare, Asia Times, The blowback effect, 2020
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 Costello, NPR, Why The Bond Market Rules The World
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 Grey, WSWS, Three top Wall Street banks to award $49.5 billion in year-end bonuses
1/05/10 Eley, WSWS, New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
1/05/10 Leonhardt, NYT, If Fed Missed This Bubble, Will It See a New One?
1/05/10 Kay, FT, The cause of our crises has not gone away
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Bezlova, IPS, POLITICS: Backlash against Rogue Chinese Investors Alarms Beijing
1/04/10 BBC, Pension savings 'deteriorating'
1/04/10 BBC, Singapore economy sees contraction
January 3, 2010
1/03/10 Rampell, NYT, Bernanke Blames Weak Regulation for Financial Crisis
1/03/10 Hodgson, TruthOut, Escape from Pottersville: Strengthening Banking in the Public Interest
1/03/10 Irwin, WP, Bernanke: Regulatory policy is best defense against housing bubbles
January 2, 2010
1/02/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman's Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis
1/02/10 DeParle, NYT, Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
1/02/10 Irwin, WP, Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers
January 1, 2010
1/01/10 Santos, NYT, In the Shadows, Day Laborers Left Homeless as Work Vanishes
1/01/10 Garofalo, Think Progress, Wall Street Ready to Claim Billions in Tax Breaks on Bonus Payments
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 Ansel, PSL, Indiana slashes education funding in middle of school year
12/31/09 BBC, Iceland approves new Icesave deal
12/31/09 BBC, China central bank chief Zhou says 2010 is key
12/31/09 Shiels, BBC, New visa proposal to help create the next big thing
December 30, 2009
12/30/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, What's in Your Wallet?
12/30/09 Dennis, WP, E-mails inside AIG reveal executives struggling with growing crisis
12/30/09 Wright, Nation, The 2009 Balance Sheet of Change
12/30/09 Eder & Bansal, Reuters, AIG executive resigns over pay limits
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Investors could only lose in Goldman's Caymans deals
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Details of one Goldman deal reveal lopsided conflicts
12/30/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How billions in complex Goldman deals escaped scrutiny
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Teather, Guardian, From dotcom bust to banking meltdown: the decade in business
December 27, 2009
12/27/09 Haynes, NYT, Weak economy motivates Americans to save more
December 26, 2009
12/26/09 Gallagher, Free Press, Activist Sows Seeds for Farm Co-Op
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Goldfarb, WP, US Promises Unlimited Financial Assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
12/25/09 Greer, IntelDaily, The Political Ecology of Collapse, Part Three: The Bomb at the Heart of the System
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 WorldFocus, Reflections on Yegor Gaidar: Russia's 'shock therapist'
12/24/09 Goldfarb, WP, Fannie, Freddie chiefs to get Wall Street-style compensation packages
12/24/09 Kellman, AP, Congress raises debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 Guardian, Who killed cock robin? The hungry Cypriots did in annual slaughter
12/23/09 Damon, WSWS, US home foreclosures top one million mark
12/23/09 BBC, Vietnam secures $500m loan from World Bank
12/23/09 Costello, NPR, New Homes Sales Fall A Surprising 11 Percent
12/23/09 BBC, US new home sales plunge in November
12/23/09 Mouawad, NYT, Chilly Climate for Oil Refiners
12/23/09 VOANews, US Economic 'Recovery' Not as Strong as Previous Estimates
December 22, 2009
12/22/09 Lindorff, Public Record, A Longer, Deeper Recession May be Ahead, Financial Executives Warn
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Ley, BBC, Greek finances face 'credibility gap'
12/21/09 Appelbaum & Cho, WP, Fed's approach to regulation left banks exposed to crisis
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 Berry, Progressive, The Cost of Displacement
December 19, 2009
12/19/09 Bomkamp, AP, White-collar jobless join FedEx, UPS for holidays
12/19/09 Eckholm, NYT, Utility Bill Is One More Casualty of Recession
12/19/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bankers COST the economy $7 for every $1 they're paid
12/19/09 Luhby, CNN, Senate OKs filing extension for jobless
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 Applebaum, WP, Kucinich panel to investigate Citigroup tax ruling
12/18/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure tally reaches 140
December 17, 2009
12/17/09 Economic Policy Journal, The Panic Over the Soaring Monetary Base Was a Bernanke Bluff
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Mollencamp & Bray, WSJ, Credit Suisse to Pay U.S. $536 Million in Iran Probe
12/16/09 Socialist Worker, Greece's crisis is a warning to the world
12/16/09 Schulte, Socialist Worker, America's new homeless
12/16/09 Wilkinson, DetroitNews, Nearly half of Detroit's workers are unemployed
12/16/09 Ostalski, BBC, Yegor Gaidar: The price to pay
12/16/09 Eisinger & Bernstein, ProPublica, SEC Just Now Seeking Key Information On Meltdown
12/16/09 Flood, FT, Roubini warns of correction to 'bullion bubble'
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Prakash, WSWS, India: Soaring food prices place tens of millions at risk
12/15/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, "Wake Up, Gentlemen"
12/15/09 Costello, NPR, Inflation Rises Unexpectedly
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Bonner, Daily Reckoning, Feds Say Don't Worry About Depression
12/14/09 Weisenthal, The Money Game, 10 American Industries That Will Be Destroyed In The Next Decade
12/14/09 Orlov, IntelDaily, Predictions (economic)
12/14/09 Bjerga et al, Deep Journal, Fastest Food Inflation Since Riots Means Milk Up 39%
12/14/09 Lee, LAT, Job market worsens for recent college graduates
12/14/09 Wearden, Guardian, Dubai receives a $10bn bailout from Abu Dhabi
12/14/09 Meikle, Guardian, Metal thieves suspected in rail delays
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 McGraw & Bauer, KC Star, Despite US Laws, Thousands Still Virtual Slaves in America
12/13/09 Kaufman, Nation, Yes, Regulators Can Stop Foreclosures
12/13/09 Grow & Goldfarb, CPI, Ginnie Mae's Troubling Endorsements
12/13/09 Syal, Guardian, Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 BBC, US extends executive pay limits at bailed-out companies
12/11/09 Davis, The Age, Joyce's Armageddon warning
12/11/09 Carlsen, PSL, Bailed-out AIG 'acquires' small town water supplies, hikes rates 50 percent
12/11/09 Cardwell, NYT, The Homeless Are Wherever Jobs Vanish
12/11/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Lingering joblessness puts new face on foreclosure crisis
12/11/09 Gorman, LAT, Young Latinos seem to face a tougher future
12/11/09 BBC, Every third Indian 'under poverty line'
12/11/09 BBC. Greek government bonds have biggest drop in 11 years
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Roth, TPM, Former Bailout Czar Signs On With Firm That Helped Run Bailout
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, Global Food Prices Reach 14-Month High, FAO Report Says
12/10/09 Rampell, NYT, Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Deficits
December 8, 2009
12/08/09 PSL, Unemployment crisis reveals deep structural racism
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 Woods, FPIF, Africa and the Economic Crisis
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 England, FT, Kuwait fund sells $4bn Citi stake
December 5, 2009
12/05/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, Measuring The Fiscal Costs Of Not Fixing The Financial System
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 Lee, LAT, Unemployment rate eases in November
12/04/09 Bristow, BBC, North Korea currency change sparks panic
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Durden, Zero Hedge, Charting The Great World Trade Collapse
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Layoff List, The "Real" unemployment rate in the US is now 22%
12/01/09 Feffer, FPIF, Why Dubai?
12/01/09 Kroll, MoJo, Housing Meltdown, Ground Zero
12/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US commercial mortgage default rate hits 3.4%
November 30, 2009
11/30/09 BBC, US Treasury in foreclosure fines
11/30/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, U.A.E. Pledge Calms Markets, but Dubai Fears Remain
11/30/09 CNN, Dubai shares plummet 7%
11/30/09 Timmons, NYT, Dubai Crisis Tests Laws of Islamic Financing
11/30/09 WSWS, America the hungry
November 29, 2009
11/30/09 Linn, MSNBC, Black workers' crisis may linger after upturn
11/29/09 Blumenthal, McClatchy, Wall Street's a casino, so maybe state gambling laws apply
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 Eley, WSWS, US food charities overwhelmed by demand
11/28/09 Stan, AlterNet, Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads
11/28/09 Carvalho, Reuters, Abu Dhabi to aid Dubai on "case by case" basis
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, More on Goldman and AIG
11/27/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Expiring insurance subsidy imperils laid-off Americans
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Breitbart, Dubai debt move 'carefully planned': top official
11/26/09 Wassner, NYT, Dollar at 14-Year Low Against Yen
11/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Fears of double-dip recession grow as Dubai crashes
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Levine, TruthOut, Elizabeth Warren Warns: Taxpayers Are "Involuntary Investors" in "Shaky" Banks, Risk-Taking Firms
11/25/09 Seeking Alpha, U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims: Why You Can't Trust Them
11/25/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, New Study Shows Ten States Face Fiscal Crisis
11/25/09 Reuters, UPDATE 1-US Mint to suspend American Eagle gold 1-oz coins
11/25/09 Teather, Guardian, Dubai World seeks debt standstill
11/25/09 Mason, Progressive, We need a second stimulus package, especially for minorities
11/25/09 Bacon, East Bay Express, The Racial Diversity of Hunger
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 Reuters, Global sovereign debt to hit $49.5 trln-Moody's
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Al Jazeera, Unborn children for sale in S Korea
November 21, 2009
11/21/09 Atkins & van Duyn, FT, Germany warns US on market bubbles
11/21/09 De Graw, AlterNet, 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams
11/21/09 Story, NYT, Wall St. Finds Profits Again, Now by Reducing Mortgages
11/18/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse'
November 20, 2009
11/20/09 Schoen, MSNBC, Long-term unemployed face dwindling options
11/20/09 Damon, WSWS, US home foreclosures at record high as jobs crisis deepens
11/20/09 McCurry, Guardian, Deflation returns to Japan's economy
November 19, 2009
11/19/09 Johnson, Baseline, Written Testimony Submitted To The Congressional Oversight Panel
11/19/09 Damon, WSWS, Goldman's mea culpa
11/19/09 Treanor, Guardian, Blue-blooded City broker Cazenove bought by US bank in £1bn deal
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 Reich, TruthOut, The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs
11/18/09 Moberg, ITT, Out of Control
11/18/09 BBC, 'Too big to fail' US banking law
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Wall Street recovers quickly -- unlike the rest of the nation
11/17/09 bbc, NY Fed 'paid AIG banks too much'
11/17/09 Whoriskey, WP, Revamped GM loses $1.2 billion
11/17/09 Irwin & Mui, WP, Bernanke offers grim job outlook, help for dollar
11/17/09 Hilzenrath, WP, IRS unveils criteria for Swiss bank account disclosures
11/17/09 Reuters, U.S. labor group unveils plan to tackle joblessness
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Costello, NPR, CO2 Emissions Keep Rising, Despite Global Economy
11/16/09 Richburg, WP, For U.S., China, uneasiness about economic co-dependency
11/16/09 DeParle, NYT, Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High
11/16/09 Dewan, NYT, A Racial Divide Is Bridged by Recession
11/16/09 Walsh, NYT, Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout
11/16/09 Muskal, LAT, More Americans feel economic pinch in their stomachs
November 14, 2009
11/14/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Regulators Seize Another Recipient of TARP 'Healthy Bank' Bailout
11/14/09 Fredrix, AP, Rich buying again, but middle class still hurting
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 Pomfret, WP, In Wisconsin, looking east to Chinese buyers
11/13/09 NYT, A Turning Point for Eminent Domain?
11/13/09 Money Web, The coming economic collapse and oil at $200
11/13/09 PressTV, World Bank warns of more unemployment in 2010
11/16/09 Greer, IntelDaily, A Gesture from the Invisible Hand
11/13/09 Collinson, Guardian, House price drop indicates 'double-dip' for property market
11/13/09 Mackenzie, FT, Soaring oil price
11/13/09 BBC, US trade gap widens unexpectedly
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 Guardian, British Gas expects profits to rise 43% as winter gas prices are hiked
11/12/09 McGreal, Guardian, UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless
11/12/09 BBC, Oil rise 'could derail recovery'
11/12/09 Martin, WSWS, Ten US states face budget disaster
11/12/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, Rebooting the financial casino
November 11, 2009
11/11/09 Shankman, ProPublica, Streamlining the Broadband Grant Payout
11/11/09 Thoma, CNN, Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?
11/11/09 EDIE, Trillions of dollars needed to cut climate change
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 Blogging Stocks, Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini believes the bubble is about to burst
11/10/09 BBC, 'Banks on steroids' worry France
11/10/09 Uehlein, Truthout, What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 BBC, Corruption costs $1.6tn, UN says
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Haynes & Hedgpeth, W{, Millions represent the face of 10.2 percent joblessness
11/07/09 Sirota, ITT, We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 BBC, Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq
11/06/09 Woolhouse, Boston Globe, Credit Card Firms Hurry to Raise Rates
11/06/09 Pai, Progressive, Crunch Time for Planet Earth
11/06/09 Hornby, Reuters, China blasts U.S. duties ahead of Obama visit
11/06/09 BBC, US jobless rate rises to over 10%
11/06/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
11/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Mandelson: EU must not stifle investment
11/06/09 BBC, AIG posts second quarterly profit
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 McCool, Reuters, Sparring over evidence at Wall Streeters trial
11/05/09 Calmes & Stout, NYT, U.S. Readies Jobless Aid and Help on Homes
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Grey, WSWS, Workers' wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
11/04/09 Reuters, Americans on food stamps tops 36 million, new record
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 Tanner, AP, Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says
11/02/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
11/02/09 Pratt, LV Sun, The New Faces of Day Labor
11/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Taxpayers Lose $2.3 Billion with CIT Bankruptcy
11/02/09 Redington, ITT, Can the Rich Really Save Us?
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
11/01/09 CNN, CIT files for 5th largest U.S. bankruptcy
11/01/09 BBC, Gulf monetary council 'on track'
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Mircovich & Chan, Reuters, Nine U.S. banks seized in largest one-day haul
10/31/09 Paulden & Shen, Bloomberg, CIT Approaches Bankruptcy After Striking Icahn, Goldman Accords
10/31/09 Bloomberg, China Warns of World Slump If Stimulus Withdrawn
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Soros, Bloomberg, Soros Says 'Bloodletting' Yet to Come for LBOs
10/30/09 Barisheff, IntelDaily, The Next Crisis: Spiralling Inflation
10/30/09 Greer, IntelDaily, Why Markets Fail. Or here
10/30/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "TARP on Steroids"
10/30/09 Ciobanu, IPS, EASTERN EUROPE: Loans Make the Middle Class Poor
10/30/09 Estremera, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis
10/30/09 Bybee, ITT, The Pillage People
10/30/09 Carlson, PSL, Credit card companies bled workers dry in 2009
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 Fleury, BBC, Struggling in a recovering economy
10/29/09 Howley, Bloomberg, U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
10/29/09 Kaiser Family Foundation, Natural Disasters In India, Philippines Affect Rice Supply, Could Have Global Implications
10/29/09 BBC, US economy is growing once again
10/29/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. Chief Criticizes Reform Plan
10/29/09 Drash & Hannah, CNN, Engineers: Bay Bridge woes show need for critical action
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Spencer, WSWS, Child deaths from abuse and neglect rise in the US
10/28/09 CNN, Senate likely to extend homebuyers' tax credit
10/28/09 Cho, WP, N.Y. Fed pushed AIG on contracts
10/28/09 Zibel, AP, New home sales fall a surprising 3.6 percent
10/28/09 Puzzangherra, LAT, Plan would end taxpayer bailouts for financial firms deemed 'too big to fail'
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Labaton, NYT, Bill Seeks to Shift Rescue Costs to Big Banks
10/27/09 de la Merced & Dash, Big Lender GMAC Asks for More U.S. Aid
10/27/09 AP, Worsening job picture fuels slide in confidence
10/27/09 Noland, Asia Times, Mortgage madness
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Fox, Reuters, Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year
10/26/09 Kokutse, IPS, AFRICA: Broken Promises Litter the Aftermath of Global Crisis
10/26/09 Tedeschi, NYT, Homeowners Walking Away
10/26/09 Singh, Bloomberg, Caterpillar to Rehire 550 Workers, Dismiss 2,500
10/26/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN Single Market
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Deep Journal, Mike Ruppert is back from the wilderness with documentary CoLLapse
10/25/09 Trejos, WP, Loaded propositions - prepaid credit cards
10/25/09 Hutton, Guardian, Mervyn King is right - the time has come to break up the megabanks
10/25/09 Green, FT, Institutions 'haven't learnt' from the turmoil or here
10/25/09 Oakley, FT, Big shift benefits emerging markets or here
10/25/09 Johnson, FT, Private equity's love affair with leverage or here
10/25/09 FT. Unbelievable returns, thanks to government or here
10/25/09 Rousseau, FT, Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks or here
10/25/09 Uhifelder, FT, Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation or here
10/25/09 Triana, FT, Blame toxic lethality not complexity or here
10/25/09 FT, Vanguard speeds up DC launch plans
10/25/09 Labaton, NYT, Trying to Rein in 'Too Big to Fail' Institutions
10/25/09 Stelzer, TimesOnline, Global economy has no substitute for falling dollar
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 WSWS, US bankers cash in despite phony pay restraint
10/24/09 Eley, WSWS, Michigan governor again takes axe to education
10/24/09 Fox-Penner, Baseline Scenario, Patchwork Fixes, Conflicting Motives, And Other Things To Avoid: Some Lessons From the Regulated Non-Financial Sectors
10/24/09 CNN, China only trails U.S. in billionaires
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 VNS, Deputy PM says human trafficking is on the rise
9/23/09 NPR, Map: State Unemployment Rates
10/23/09 Murakami & Dennis, WP, Top employees leave financial firms ahead of pay cuts
10/23/09 Sidner, CNN, Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 AFP, US new jobless claims up again
10/22/09 Luhby, CNN, 7,000 unemployed Americans lose their lifeline every day
October 21, 2009
10/21/09 Quinn & Hall, Times/UK, Goldman Sachs vice-chairman says: 'Learn to tolerate inequality'
10/21/09 de Vise & Anderson, WP, College costs still rising
10/21/09 Seager & Treanor, Guardian, Mervyn King: banking fallout will last generation
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Meyer, FT, Setback for US crackdown on oil speculation
10/20/09 Baumann, MoJo, Did Hank Paulson Break the Law?
10/20/09 Spencer, WSWS, Oregon: plagued by homelessness, unemployment, cuts in social services
10/20/09 Conaway, NPR, Wholesale Prices Fall. Plus: The Hidden Costs Of Fossil Fuels
10/20/09 Yen, AP, Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty
10/20/09 Sorokin, NYT, The Race to Save Lehman Brothers
10/20/09 Reuters, Pfizer Profits Rise After Cost Cutting
10/20/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, Internal documents, e-mails shed light on Merrill deal
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Raum, AP, Higher unemployment might become the norm as result of recession
10/19/09 DeGraw, Public record, The Wall Street Economic Death Squad
10/19/09 Al Jazeera, US treasury faces bonds lawsuit
10/19/09 Reuters, U.S. poised to bring more insider trading cases
10/19/09 France, The Sun, Parents Sell Virgins at Ages 12 for Sex
10/19/09 Damon & Kishore, WSWS, The two Americas
10/19/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 Ayala, IPS, MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
10/18/09 Maynard, NYT, A Lifeline Not Made in the U.S.A.
10/18/09 Reuters, UBS registered mail warns U.S. clients on tax: report
10/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 AFP, LatAm Leftists Tackle Dollar with New Currency
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Reuters, U.S. bank failure tally hits 99 for 2009
10/16/09 Bower, Guardian, Held over a barrel
October 15, 2009
10/15/09 Clark, Guardian, Latest Goldman Sachs profits swell billion-dollar bonus pool
10/15/09 McKee & Lanman, Bloomberg, Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks
10/15/09 DW-Worlde, Never have so many people suffered from hunger
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 Tyson, WP, A Historic Success In Military Recruiting
10/14/09 Clark, Guardian, Bear Stearns duo lied 'over and over again', court hears
10/14/09 BBC, Global hunger worsening, warns UN
10/14/09 WSWS, The American way of debt: Turning a profit by preying on the poor
10/14/09 BBC, US retail in sharpest 2009 fall
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, E-Mail Shows Concerns Over Merrill Deal
10/13/09 Uchitele, NYT, Still on the Job, but Making Only Half as Much
10/13/09 Timiraos, WSJ, Foreclosures Grow in Housing Market's Top Tiers
10/13/09 Rogers, Miami Herald, Costa Rica draws sex trade
10/13/09 Hamilton, LAT, Trial to begin for two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers
October 12, 2009
10/12/09 Deep Journal, Robert Fisk on his 'demise of the dollar' article
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Deep Journal, US facing massive economic 'power shift' with dollar's downward spiral
10/11/09 BBC, Russia economy 'to shrink 7.5%'
October 10, 2009
10/09/09 Lambert, Reuters, U.S. states suffer "unbelievable" revenue shortages
10/10/09 Reuters, U.S. Q3 growth seen strongest in 2 years
10/10/09 Zezima, NYT, Indigent Burials Are on the Rise
October 9, 2009
10/09/09 Hullalbaloo, AlterNet, War, What Is it Good for? Iraq to Deal Oil in Euros
10/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Desperate Scene in Detroit as Stimulus Comes to Crossroads
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 Conaway, NPR, New Job-Loss Claims Fall. Chronic Unemployment Grows.
10/08/09 KuhnHenn & Zibel, AP, Watchdog doubts goals of Obama loan relief plan
10/08/09 Downs, Lexington Courier Journal, 10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs
10/08/09 Bivens, Asia Times, Follow the money
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Americans cutting back on health care to save money
10/07/09 Lux, OpenLeft, Mapping the Gravest Recession - BLS Unemployment Map
10/07/09 BBC, US deficit 'hits record $1.4tn'
10/07/09 Rosen, KC Star, Bank revenue from overdraft fees reached $24 billion last year, study shows
10/07/09 Billington, Guardian, The Power of Yes
10/07/09 Henry & Borger, Sources: Administration considering safety net measures
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Reuters, Saudi central bank: report on replacing dollar is wrong
10/06/09 Reuters, Gulf region to stay with dollar for oil: UAE central bank source
10/06/09 Anderson, NYT, Debt-Market Paralysis Deepens Credit Drought
10/06/09 Appel, IPS, FINANCE: IMF Loan Policies Worsening Crisis, NGOs Say
10/06/09 Mansur, KC Star, Foreclosure crisis creates thousands more vacant buildings in KC
10/06/09 Caldwell, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Fisk, Independent, The Demise of the Dollar
10/05/09 Conaway, NPR, Bonds Are Back, And Roubini Says Duck
10/05/09 Bonner, Daily Reckoning, New Default Wave Hits Mortgage Industry
10/05/09 My Budget 360, Economy Losing 11,000 Jobs per day since December of 2007. 824,000 Jobs Lost in Statistical Revision: 8 Million Jobs Lost Since Start of Recession. Nationwide Unemployment Rate at 17 Percent.
10/05/09 Hopkins, Guardian, IMF policies deepened financial crisis, says CEPR
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 Harris, Guardian, Will California become America's first failed state?
10/04/09 Adams, McClatchy, Firms are getting billions, but homeowners still in trouble
10/04/09 Schifferes, BBC, Pledge for more IMF help for poor
10/04/09 BBC, US economic power 'is declining'
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, A Short Question For Senior Officials Of The New York Fed
10/03/09 Thomas, NYT, Offshore Haven Is Forced to Consider a Heresy, Collecting Taxes
10/03/09 Lux, OpenLeft, Bankers and Workers
10/03/09 Sahadi, CNN, 47% will pay no federal income tax
10/03/09 Torchia, Reuters, G7 considering its future, may form smaller group
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 Leahy, IPS, Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
10/02/09 Willis, Bloomberg, U.S. Economy: September Job Losses Exceed Forecast
10/02/09 Kennedy & Brown, Bloomberg, G-7 May Break With Currency Tradition as Status Fades
10/02/09 Castillo, CNN, U.S. immigrant population flat, Census numbers show
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Morgan, Ann Arbor Chron. How to Sustain a Local Economy: From PB&J to Regional Currencies
10/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US Census Bureau report: 40 million living in poverty
10/01/09 Ritchie, ITT, Rural America Needs You
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Engler, FPIF, Casino Capitalism as Usual
9/20/09 BBC, Richest Americans hit by downturn
9/30/09 AP, GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away
9/30/09 Goodchild, CounterCurrents, Systemic Collapse: The Basics
9/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Tight Credit Threatens Recovery. Plus: ADP Says 254,000 More Jobs Gone
9/30/09 IRIN, Recovery: ASIA: Global recession boosts child prostitution and trafficking in Asia
9/30/09 BBC, US economic contraction revised
9/30/09 Kroll, MoJo, Meet the Taxpayers' $3 Trillion Watchdog
9/30/09 Linthicum & Correll, LAT, Census data show falling income
9/30/09 BBC, IMF cuts crisis losses prediction
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 BBC, Japan prices continue record fall
9/29/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. Moves to Replenish Bank Fund
9/29/09 Hall, McClatchy, U.S. economic crisis was long time in the making
9/29/09 Collins, IntelDaily, The G-20 Announces the "New World Order"
9/29/09 Oppman, CNN, Homeless find temporary haven in tent camps
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Quigley, TruthOut, Street Report From the G20
9/28/09 Martenson, Federal Reserve Buys More Than 100% of Mortgages Issued in 2009
9/28/09 Stewart, Guardian, US dollar set to be eclipsed, World Bank president predicts
September 27, 2009
9/27/09 Kranish & Wirzbicki, Boston Globe, Bailed-Out Banks Lobby Hard to Stave Off Limits
9/27/09 Sparrow, Guardian, Brown: Our bank bonus regulation will be toughest in the world
09/27/09 Templeton, Times Online, Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts
September 26, 2009
9/26/09 Goodman, NYT, U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio
9/26/09 Dixon, Reuters, More tax cases vs wealthy, U.S. banks
9/26/09 Wintoru & Clark, Guardian, G20 leaders map out new economic order at Pittsburgh summit
9/26/09 Walker, BBC, Will tough new G20 measures work?
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Moberg, ITT, The Retail Devolution
9/25/09 Burns, BBC, Recession barely dents 'eco-debt'
9/25/09 BBC, Australia seeks investment limits
9/25/09 LeFleur, ProPublica, Phantom School Districts Tagged for Stimulus Dollars
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Bank of America $4 Billion, Taxpayers $425 Million
9/23/09 Conniff, Progressive, Banks Take Over the G20, and Their Own Bailout
9/23/09 Prins & Hayes, Nation, Meet the Hazzards
9/23/09 CNBC, We Are in a Toilet-Shaped Recovery: Roche
9/23/09 Shen, Bloomberg, Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 Morello & Keating, WP, Number of Foreign-Born U.S. Residents Drops
9/22/09 Schiff, AsiaTimes, Autopsies miss Lehman lesson
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Shankman, ProPublica, Is a $350 Million Map Excessive? stimulus plan
9/21/09 Yen, AP, Census: Recession had sweeping effect on US life
9/21/09 Bull, Reuters, U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20
9/21/09 Willard, Reuters, Europe, U.S., China must take IMF medicine: Trichet
9/21/09 Koramda, Wichita Eagle, Fund's decline delaying trials
9/21/09 Labaton, NYT, F.D.I.C. May Borrow Funds From Bank
9/21/09 Roberts, NYT, Census Data Show Recession-Driven Changes
September 20, 2009
9/20/09 Klein, WP, You Have No Idea What Health Costs
9/20/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Bernanke: Recession's "Likely Over". Stiglitz: In 2012
9/20/09 Stewart, CNN, Obama: Economy probably won't produce enough jobs until 2010
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Clark, Guardian, IMF approves $13bn gold sale to aid poor states
September 18, 2009
9/18/09 Baseline Scenario, Regulatory Arbitrage 2.0
9/18/09 NPR, Unemployment Rate Reaches 10 Percent In Over A Dozen States
9/18/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Housing Agency's Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement
9/18/09 BBC, US gets tough on ratings agencies
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Tse, WP, Cuomo Subpoenas Bank of America Directors
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 Shin, WP, World Bank: Poor Face Long Recovery
9/15/09 Stiglitz, NPR, Stiglitz: GDP Is Not Enough
September 15, 2009
9/15/09 Andrews & Witt, ProPublica, The Secret Test That Ensures Lenders Win on Loan Mods
9/15/09 Langer, ABCNews, POLL: Deep Damage From Economic Crash One Year On - 1/2 of families impacted
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 Deen & Tweed, Bloomberg, Stiglitz Says Bank Problems Bigger Than Pre-Lehman
9/14/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, US Census Bureau Confirms Rising Poverty, Falling Incomes, and Growing Numbers of Uninsured
9/15/09 Chakrabortty, Guardian, Brain food: The theory that destroyed the banks
9/14/09 Guardian, Lehmans - one year on: have we learned the lessons?
9/14/09 BBC, Migrants risk lives for Europe
9/14/09 BBC, Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis
9/14/09 Plaut, BBC, WFP to shut Somalia food centres
9/14/09 Economic Times, Risk-taking is back for banks 1 year after crisis
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 Parry, Daily Mail Online, Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
9/13/09 Abate, SF Chron, Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
9/13/09 Singletary, WP, Jobless, and Fighting Hopelessness
9/13/09 Andrews & Sanger, NYT, U.S. Is Finding Its Role in Business Hard to Unwind
9/13/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Lehmans' last day
9/13/09 BBC, TUC warns of four million jobless
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Barr, CNN, Insiders sell like there's no tomorrow
9/12/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, Resisting Foreclosures
9/12/09 Baran, MN PR, Police Arrest Seven Protesters at Foreclosed Home
9/12/09 Reuters, Global economic crisis to continue: IMF chief
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Conaway, NPR, WSJ: Economists Say Recession Is Over, Unemployment To Keep Rising
9/11/09 Flavelle, ProPublica, Has the Stimulus Really Created or Saved One Million Jobs?
9/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Wall Street's Mania for Short-Term Results Hurts Economy
9/11/09 Hardiang, guardian, Russia has huge political and economic problems, says Dmitry Medvedev
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Americans Are Getting Poorer, and It's Going to Get Worse
9/10/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Lessons Learned and Soon Forgotten
9/10/09 Conaway, NPR, More Americans Poor, Fewer Insured: Census Bureau
9/10/09 Rizvi, IPS, Speculators Undermining Recovery, Report Says
9/10/09 Schifferes, BBC, Crisis 'cost us $10,000 each'
September 9, 2009
9/09/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 AP, US economy loses top spot in poll to Swiss
9/08/09 Hall, McClatchy, A year after financial crisis, the consumer economy is dead
9/08/09 CNN, Consumer credit dives by 10%
9/08/09 Walker, BBC, Recession moves migration patterns
September 7, 2009
9/07/09 Burghardt, Intel Daily, Capitalizing Security: "Non-Lethal" Weapons and the Market
9/07/09 Wessler, Itt, Foreclosure Crisis Built on Racial Injustice
9/07/09 BBC, US recovery prospect 'very weak'
September 6, 2009
9/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Lehman assets considerably reduced, say receivers
9/06/09 BBC, Economy 'to bounce back by 2010'
9/06/09 Krugman, NYT, How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
September 5, 2009
9/05/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Activists Demand Real Change as Foreclosures Mount
9/05/09 Andersen, NYT, Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
9/05/09 Eckholm, NYT, Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools
9/05/09 Andrews, NYT, Obama Announces Initiatives to Increase Savings
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Kestenbaum, NPR, The Derivatives They Call "I-Kill-You-Later"
9/04/09 Watts, Guardian, Current Economic Growth Model Is 'Immoral', Says Prescott
9/04/09 AP, Unemployment rate hits 9.7%
9/04/09 Brookes, BBC, Economic crash in Oregon boomtown
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Conaway, NPR. New Job-Loss Claims Fall, Rise At Same Time. The Big Number Comes Tomorrow.
9/03/09 Levine, AlterNet, Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents
9/03/09 Love, Reuters, Global recession ending: OECD
9/03/09 BBC, Joint call for bank bonus rules
9/03/09 BBC, The year that shook the world ... G20: Economic summit snapshot
9/03/09 Dean, Examiner, 1.3 million unemployment benefits nearing the end
9/03/09 Reuters, Food stamp list soars past 35 million: USDA
September 2, 2009
9/02/09 Kerber & Stempel, Reuters, Blistering report faults SEC for Madoff misses
9/02/09 Hopkins, Guardian, The double-edged sword of falling debt
9/02/09 Conaway, NPR, Productivity Makes Biggest Leap Since 2003. (Yes, You're Working Harder.)
9/02/09 Anderson & Pizzigati, AlterNet, There's a Bubble That Still Threatens the Entire American Economy ... and Few Are Talking About It
9/02/09 Pearlstein, WP, So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Pugh, McClatchy, For the long-term unemployed, recovery talk rings hollow
9/01/09 McGreal & Anderson, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Migrants past & present
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Birnbaum, WP, Per-Student Spending Gaps Wider Than Known
8/31/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Ex-Countrywide Execs' Firm Modifies Bad Loans for Taxpayer Cash
8/31/09 Jonnson, CSM, For More Hard-Pressed Americans, a Campsite is Home
8/31/09 Reuters, Federal Reserve made $14 billion on turmoil loans: report
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Real Estate / Labor Side Of The Economic Recovery Equation
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: interactive guide
8/30/09 McGreal, Guardian, The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The plight of Native Americans
8/30/09 Glover, SacBee, Federal 'cash for appliances' program should spur sales
8/30/09 Healy, NYT, Some Analysts See an End to Market Rally
August 29, 2009
8/29/09 Simon, Baseline Scenario, More On The Two-Track Economy - From The WSJ And Others
8/29/09 IntelDaily, Physicists Untangle Complicated Webs to Reveal that the World's Finances are Controlled by "Just a Few Mutual Funds, Banks, and Corporations"
August 28, 2009
8/28/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, How Much Does the Financial Sector Cost?
8/28/09 Cho, WP, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger
8/28/09 McGreal, Guardian, Same Road, Same Grim Story, Same Sense of Optimism
8/28/09 Conaway, NPR, The New Secrecy At The FDIC
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 McGreal, Guardian, From dust to bust, America's poor take on a new type of monster
8/27/09 Reuters, Prisons, colleges top states' budget cuts: Pew
8/27/09 Erich, CNBC, 1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO
8/27/09 Schenkman, Inside Science, Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
8/27/09 Automatic Earth, How to Grow Your GDP while Killing Your Economy
August 26, 2009
8/26/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Subprime Companies Line Up for Gov't Mortgage Plan
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, UBS and the Taxpayers' Hidden Billions
8/25/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Loses Suit Over Lending Programs' Transparency
8/25/09 Benno, PSL, Puerto Rico's unemployment reaches 16.5 percent
8/25/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Bernie Sanders Denounces Bernanke Reappointment
8/25/09 Blume & Song, LAT, School board approves plan to open up schools to outsiders
8/25/09 Andrews, NYT, U.S. Raises Estimate for 10-Year Deficit to $9 Trillion
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 McNally, AlterNet, There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
8/24/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Fun with Derivatives
8/24/09 Apuzzo, AP, Remember me? Wall Street repackages debt for sale
8/24/09 BBC, Toyota recalls 690,000 China cars
August 23, 2009
8/23/09 Ohlemacher, AP, Millions face shrinking Social Security payments
8/23/09 Mason, Reuters, New deficit projections pose risks to Obama's agenda
8/23/09 Reuters, Roubini warns of double-dip recession: report
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 BBC, Oil price touches high for 2009
8/21/09 BBC, Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected'
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Reuters, U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rise
8/20/09 Zinnerman, LAT, Mortgage defaults rise to record 13%
8/20/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II
8/20/09 Liu, AsiaTimes, Money and Commodity Markets, Part 1 Integrity deficit has its price
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 DMI, OpenLeft, Forget The Squeeze: The Middle Class Is In A Choke Hold
8/19/09 Pepitone, CNN, Why oil won't return to triple digits
8/19/09 Ohlemacher & Barrett, Miami Herald, UBS to divulge 4,450 account names
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Kohl, Corn & Soybean Digest, FDIC Sees Ag Banks As The Next Big Crisis
8/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Meltdown 101: Foreign Investments in US Debt
8/18/09 Merle, WP, Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis
8/18/09 Baseline Scenario, United States Inequality in the Recovery Period
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Gordon, AP, Fed survey: bank lending tight through mid-2010
8/17/09 Mui & Merle, WP, U.S. Stocks Plummet, Following Overseas Markets
8/17/09 Martenson, The FDIC Is Broke - Now What?
August 16, 2009
8/16/09 Lynn, Reuters, UBS to name 5,000 accounts under U.S. deal: report
8/16/09 Hall, McClatchy, Homeowners tell how banks failed to modify mortgages
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Ahrens, NYT, Consumer Prices Down 2.1 Percent Over 2008
8/14/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. says ex-Credit Suisse broker in bait-and-switch
8/14/09 Talev, McClatchy, Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?
8/14/09 Levy, Bloomberg, Toxic Loans Topping 5% May Push 150 Banks to Point of No Return
8/14/09 Warren, IntelDaily, Toxic Assets: Elizabeth Warren "We Have A Real Problem Coming" (video)
8/14/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part I
8/14/09 BBC, Biggest US bank failure this year
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 Conaway, NPR, Falling Retail, Rising Job Loss Leads To Record Treasury Auction
8/13/09 Lux, OpenLeft, The Big Banks: How Low Will They Go?
8/13/09 Irwin, WP, Fed Starts Rollback Of Rescue Efforts
8/13/09 Reuters, U.S. retail sales fall, new jobless claims up
8/13/09 BBC, More banks told 'reveal accounts'
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Al Jazeera, Russian economy in record decline
8/12/09 Shin, WP, 'A Recovery Only a Statistician Can Love'
8/12/09 Whitney, IntelDaily, It's Not a Recession. It's a planned demolition
8/12/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Retreat in Asia
8/12/09 Browning, NYT, UBS and U.S. Report a Deal on Tax Inquiry
8/12/09 Blanchflower, Guardian, This lays bare the human crisis. What a terrible time to be young and jobless
8/12/09 Erdman, CNN, Study ranks states' vulnerability to oil prices
8/12/09 BBC, Downturn 'to trigger abuse rise'
8/12/09 Cratty, CNN, Feds to tour Michigan prison where Gitmo detainees could go
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bankruptcy Judges, Justice Dept. Rip Mortgage Companies
8/11/09 Conaway, NPR, Layoffs Lead To Soaring Productivity. Hours Worked In Record-Low Range
8/11/09 Elliott, Guardian, If we're back to business as usual it's curtains for Labour
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Conoway, NPR, Chart: The Collapse In Global Trade
8/10/09 Lefler, Wichita Eagle, Kansas eliminates state funding for abortion alternatives
8/10/09 Ismail, WSWS, US cities criminalize homelessness
8/10/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, Stimulus or bust
August 9, 2009
8/09/09 Scholtes & Guerrara, Financial Times, Banks Make $38 Billion From Overdraft Fees
8/09/09 Adams, McClatchy, Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't entirely sure
8/09/09 Cohen, Guardian, Don't be fooled - the recession is far from over
August 8, 2009
8/08/09 Morgenson & Natta, NYT, Paulson's Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics
8/08/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Oregon, Florida Banks Fail Friday
8/08/09 Story, NYT, For Private Equity, a Very Public Disaster
8/08/09 Cholia, AlterNet, The Shocking Benefits of Legalizing Pot
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 AP, Job losses slow to 247,000; jobless rate dips
8/07/09 Lawder, Reuters, Geithner asks Congress for higher U.S. debt limit
8/07/09 Martenson, ChrisMartenson.com, Unemployment Report Distortions
8/07/09 Ford, Black Agenda Report, Black Jobs Disappearing at Depression-Era Rates
8/07/09 Heinberg, Oil Drum, Temporary Recession or the End of Growth?
August 6, 2009
8/06/09 Chart, OpenLeft, Fix Derivatives, Save The World?
8/06/09 Goldfarb & Cho, WP, U.S. Considers Remaking Mortgage Giants
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Malinga et al, Guardian, The cost of living in Katine
8/05/09 Favilla, Les Echoes, The Scorpion Syndrome
8/05/09 Umansky, ProPublica, New Feature: Tracking Stimulus Spending--Made Easy!
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Weise & Andrews, ProPublica, Treasury's Loan Mod Progress Report: Read the Fine Print
8/04/09 Reuters, California told to prepare massive prisoner release
8/04/09 Bajaj, NYT, India Gets Caught Short as Sugar Prices Soar
8/04/09 Duhigg, NYT, S.E.C. Starts Crackdown on 'Flash' Trading
8/04/09 Clifford, CNN, Consumer bankruptcies jump 34%
8/04/09 McCullagh, CBS, Why Home Prices Will Continue To Fall
8/04/09 Ehrenreich & Muhammad, The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
August 2, 2009
8/02/09 Reuters, Housing could take another turn downward: Greenspan
8/02/09 Eckholm, NYT, Prolonged Aid to Unemployed Is Running Out
8/02/09 Neary & Schneider, AP, Slice of central US safe from recession shrinking
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Lewis, Vanity Fair, The Man Who Crashed the World
July 31, 2009
7/31/09 Browne, Asia Times, Dead banks walking
7/31/09 BBC, 'Dire shortage' at UN food agency
July 30, 2009
7/30/09 Conaway, NPR, Why You Can't Rework Your Mortgage: Banks Love The Late Fees
7/30/09 Katz, NPR, Senate Subpoenas Banks Over Subprime Mortgages
7/30/09 Adler, Reuters, Unemployment spreads distress in U.S. home loans
7/30/09 AP, Figures on government spending and debt
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 Conoway, NPR, Unemployment Rises In Every U.S. Met
7/29/09 dreaminonempty, OpenLeft, The Real Economy
7/29/09 Coulter, Burlington Mass., Can the Buck Stop Here?: Supporting the Local Economy
7/29/09 Cooper, NYT, Stimulus Law Bolsters Food Bank Offerings
7/29/09 Wearden, Guardian, Bernard Madoff amazed he got away with $65bn fraud for so long
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Merle, WP, Foreclosures Are Often In Lenders' Best Interest
7/28/09 Dennis, WP, Small Banks at Center of Overhaul Debate
July 27, 2009
4/27/09 BBC, US rules on abusive short selling
7/27/09 Lee, LAT, Ben Bernanke says Fed didn't act quickly enough to stop reckless mortgage lending
7/27/09 Renton, Guardian, Hunger bites back
7/27/09 Woods, BBC, US manufacturing jobs go to China
7/27/09 BBC, Bernanke defends bail-out package
July 26, 2009
7/26/09 Davis, KC Star, Bernanke opens up at Kansas City town hall event
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Johnson, Baseline, After Peak Finance: Larry Summers' Bubble
7/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Unveils New Rules on Mortgage Lending
7/24/09 GW Blog, ts Official: U.S. Trapped in an Extended Deflationary Cycle
7/24/09 Grey, IntelDaily, As jobless claims rise, Wall Street celebrates corporate profit reports
7/24/09 Asia Times, Fiction upon fiction
7/24/09 Gamboni, PSL, Goldman Sachs announces $11.4 billion in exec bonuses
7/24/09 Hall, McClatchy, Bank regulators resist Obama's encroachment on their turf
7/24/09 Appel, IPS, ECONOMY-US: Trillions to Banks as Taxpayers Left in the Dark
July 23, 2009
7/23/09 NorteSur, AlterNet, More Mexicans Are Sending Money to Help Out Relatives in the U.S.
7/23/09 NPR, New Jobless Claims Rise Again -- Formula Still Skewed
7/23/09 Kiel, ProPublica, ,a href="http://www.propublica.org/ion/bailout/item/wall-street-on-pace-to-pay-far-above-2008-levels#11675">Wall Street on Pace to Pay Far Above 2008 Levels
July 22, 2009
7/22/09 NPR, Revenue's Down, Profit's Up. How's That Work?
7/22/09 Charlton, AP, Workers lock up execs in new French 'bossnappings'
7/22/09 Lee, LAT, Bernanke says the U.S. economy has 'a very long haul' ahead
7/22/09 Kwak, Baseline, S&P Revises Expectations for the Economy Downward
7/22/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Wall Street Welfare Queen Average Bonuses $1.0 Million Per Employee
7/22/09 Elliott, Guardian, British industry faces a long slog out of the recession, CBI says
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 Brush, The Hill, Autos, Banks Spend $20 Million Lobbying
7/21/09 Welsh, OpenLeft, State Revenues Took Biggest Hit On Record During First Quarter
7/21/09 AP, Bernanke tells Congress that Fed has exit strategy
7/21/09 Wasik, HuffingtonPost, The American Dream is Leaving the Station
7/21/09 Hennessy-Fiske, LAT, More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs
July 20, 2009
7/20/09 Goodman, NYT, Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers
7/20/09 Haughney, NYT, Stores Go Dark Where Buyers Once Roamed
7/20/09 McWhorter, CNN, Commentary: Where the jobs really are
7/20/09 BBC, US 'exposure to crisis $23.7tn'
July 19, 2009
7/19/09 Kwak, Baseline, Jamie Dimon v. Larry Summers
7/19/09 Balz, WP, At Governors' Meeting, Budget Problems Are Inescapable
July 17, 2009
7/17/09 Rooney, CNN, Michigan unemployment tops 15%
7/17/09 Appelbaum, WP, Lawmakers Blast Paulson For His Response to Crisis
7/17/09 Appelbaum, NYT, Bank of America, Citigroup Report Large Second-Quarter Profits
July 16, 2009
7/17/09 Bowley, NYT, Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins
7/16/09 Christie, CNN, 1.5 million homes in foreclosure in '09
7/16/09 BBC, JPMorgan Chase profits soar 36%
July 15, 2009
7/15/09 Rucker, Reuters, Obama mulls rental option for homeowners: sources
July 14, 2009
7/14/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Part-Time Workers Mask Unemployment Woes
7/14/09 Al Jazeera, US invites Gulf Arab investment
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Wall Street Journal Loves Obama's Drone War Vs. Pakistan: "Unmanned Bombs Away"
7/11/09 Gowen, WP, American Children in Poverty on the Rise
7/13/09 Rothaker & Melnick, Charlotte Observer, Minority Loan Gap Widens
7/13/09 Kane, Wa. Independent, Only Forceful Action Can Change Foreclosure Crisis Tide
7/13/09 Shih, NYT, Stocks Climb on Optimism Over Bank Earnings
7/13/09 BBC, US budget deficit at $1 trillion
7/13/09 Atkinson, BBC, Controversy to surround Goldman success
7/13/09 Richburg, WP, States Seek Less Costly Substitutes For Prison
7/13/09 Laessing & Somerville, Reuters, Geithner to reassure Gulf allies on dollar assets
7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Mostrous, WP, More Families Are Becoming Homeless
7/12/09 Starcansky, IPS, EUROPE: Bringing Up a 'Lost Generation'
7/12/09 Bowley & Anderson, NYT, For Goldman, a Swift Return to Lofty Profits
July 11, 2009
7/11/09 Kucinich, Progressive, The Banks' Massive Theft
7/11/09 Lindelof, SacBee, CSU system says it won't accept spring enrollment applications
7/11/09 Spence, IntelDaily, The Continued Fleecing Of America And Its Citizens By The Financial Elites
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 AP, General Motors emerges from bankruptcy
7/10/09 BBC, Further deflation woes for Japan
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 NPR, Treasury Seeks 'Plan C'
7/09/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Growing numbers of poor people swamp legal aid offices
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Agazzi, IPS, WORLD: Trade Cannot Be Relied Upon to Reduce Poverty
7/08/09 Mittlal, FPIF, G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?
7/08/09 Bello, FPIF, Keynes: A Man for this Season?
7/08/09 Jucca, Reuters, Swiss to Stop UBS Handing over Data in US Tax Row
7/08/09 Stulman, Asia Times, Indebted nations fight off vulture funds
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Coutts & Kile, ProPublica, How Big is AIG's Bailout ... Really?
7/07/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. consumers fall behind on loans at record pace
7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, What happened to those bad bank assets? So far, nothing
7/07/09 McKim, Boston Globe, Study: Lenders Avoid Aiding Distressed Due to Lack of Profit
7/07/09 Hall, McClatchy, Regulators aim to curb speculators' influence on oil prices
7/07/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 NPR, Hours Worked Hits Historic Low: You Saw It Coming
7/06/09 Stulman, FPIF, Time to Clamp Down on Vulture Funds
7/06/09 Tercer, AlterNet, Taibbi: New Secrecy Rule Lets Goldman Sachs Control Stock Prices Unmolested by Public Scrutiny
7/06/09 Lee, Chicago Tribune, Home foreclosures expected to surge in coming months
7/06/09 Mirhaydari, MSN Money, True unemployment rate already at 20%
7/06/09 Fackler, NYT, With Wounded Pride, Unemployed Koreans Quietly Turn to Manual Labor
July 5, 2009
7/05/09 Schifferes, BBC, G8 set to tackle hunger in Africa
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Bank Failure Friday Comes Early
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 NPR, IMF Bonds (!!!!)
7/02/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Many States Leave Federal Unemployment Money Unclaimed
7/02/09 Taibi, Rolling Stone, The Great American Bubble Machine
7/02/09 Clemons, Washington Note, America's Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?
7/02/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Cheating still beats real work
7/02/09 Lee, LAT, Hiring might not rebound in an economic recovery
7/02/09 Steinhauser, CNN, Poll: Few Americans say recovery under way
7/02/09 BBC, California in 'fiscal emergency'
7/02/09 BBC, US job losses worse than expected
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Obama expands program to aid borrowers who're 'underwater'
7/01/09 Chadbourn, Bloomberg, Delinquencies Double on Least-Risky Loans, U.S. Says
7/01/09 Rappeport, FT, US private sector sheds 473,000 jobs
7/01/09 Randall, WSWS, US state budget crises fuel massive spending cuts: Deadlines threaten government shutdowns
7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
7/01/09 Benno, PSL, New Orleans housing 'unaffordable'
7/01/09 Roa, AlterNet, The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Merle, WP, Home Prices Fall at Slower Rate in April
6/30/09 Guerrera et al, Financial Times, Citi Raises Rates on Millions of Credit Cards: Report
6/30/09 Seager, Guardian, UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in more than 50 years
6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 NPR, What It's Costing Us
6/29/09 Hall, McClatchy, Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush officials on bank regulation
6/29/09 Hudson, CRG, Debt Deflation in America: What the Jump in the U.S. Savings Rate Really Means
6/29/09 Gerth & Dennis, ProPublica, How a Loophole Benefits GE in Bank Rescue
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Hough, NY Post, Don't Get that College Degree
6/28/09 Lydersen, ITT, The Legacy Lives On
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 Rooney, CNN, Bank failure list tops 45
6/26/09 Woodward, Boston Globe, Saudi, Libyan leaders top gift-givers to US
6/26/09 Thill, ITT, Will the 'Dollar Wars' Kill What's Left of the American Dream?
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Econ Policy Journal, New Fed Data Points to a New Decline in the Stock Market and Economy
6/25/09 Baseline Scenario, Conventional Wisdom About Credit Default Swaps
6/25/09 Chevez, Lexington Herald-Leader, Report: Coal industry costs state government
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
6/24/09 Scheer, Nation, Foreclosure Fiasco
6/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed-Out Bank Execs Will Get to Keep Golden Parachutes
6/24/09 Hindery & Girard, Nation, Our Jobless Recovery
6/24/09 Rothacker, Charlotte Observer, Documents: Fed sought to keep other regulators in dark on BofA
June 23, 2009
6/23/09 TruthOut, Student Loan Debts Are Sinking American Dreams
6/23/09 Thomas, ITT, All-American Squatters
6/23/09 Dash, NYT, Citigroup Has a Plan to Fatten Salaries
6/23/09 Bernstein, MoJo, Madoff Twist: The Big Winner You've Never Heard of
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 NPR, Bankers Still Raking It In
6/22/09 Fletcher, WP, Recovery's Missing Ingredient: New Jobs
6/22/09 Reuters, Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses: report
6/22/09 Fox, Reuters, Americans struggle to pay for healthcare: study
6/22/09 Wilson, Bloomberg, Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price on Biggest Slump Since 1980
6/22/09 Goldstein, CSM, Banking, the Swedish model
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Women Bear the Brunt of the Crisis
6/21/09 Doward, Guardian, Antidepressant use soars as the recession bites
6/21/09 BBC, Europe bank chief warns on debt
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Baseline, Shadow Banking for Beginners
6/20/09 Bacon, TruthOut, Criminals Because We Worked
6/20/09 Leonard, NYT. Treasury's Got Bill Gross on Speed Dial
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Regulators!
6/19/09 Baseline, TARP for Rating Agencies
6/19/09 ProPublica, In Their Shoes: Foreign Contractors in Iraq
6/19/09 Boscov-Ellen, Council of Hemispheric Affairs, Water for Sale; Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
6/19/09 BBC, Switzerland agrees to US tax deal
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 Miller, ProPublica, AIG, KBR and CNA Face New Questions About Insurance for Injured Civilian Contractors
6/18/09 Morrison, AP, Attacks continue on Romanians in Northern Ireland
6/17/09 Baumann, MoJo, Is Obama Blowing It on Derivatives Reform?
6/18/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Ratings Agencies Largely Escape Regulatory Overhaul
6/18/09 AFP, World Powers Push for Financial Sector Reform
6/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Jobless Benefit Rolls Post First Dip Since January
6/18/09 Turse, MoJo, Bush Officials Cash In as More Americans Lose Out
6/18/09 Hall, McClatchy, Worse than subprime? Other mortgages imploding slowly
6/18/09 Spieldoch, FPIF, Global Land Grab
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 GEAB, Global systemic crisis in summer 2009: The cumulative impact of three rogue waves
6/17/09 Prins, MoJo, Obamanomics: The Good, the Bad, the Weak
6/17/09 Clark, Guardian, Obama launches overhaul of US financial regulation
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 AP, White House says no to California budget help
6/16/09 Rampell, NYT, The Economic Impact of Climate Change
6/16/09 Bowley, NYT, Foreign Banks See Opportunity in Turmoil
6/16/09 Renner, TruthOut, Bank Plan Leaves Out Prosecution and Compensation
6/16/09 BBC, BA asks staff to work for nothing
6/16/09 Labott, CNN, Recession boosts global human trafficking, report says
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 Apuzzo, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: $25 check may cost you food stamps
6/15/09 Prins, MoJo, The Big Bank Bailout Payback Bamboozle
6/15/09 Howell, BBC, Trouble in the Middle East's banking centre
6/15/09 BBC, Dollar's reserve status 'is safe'
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 Costantini, IPS, Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
6/15/09 Peacock, Reuters, IMF says worst not over
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Berger, IPS, U.S.: Crisis Must Reshape Economists' Thinking, Krugman Says
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Guardian, US giant BlackRock buys arm of Barclays bank
6/12/09 Irwin, WP, Spike in Interest Rates Could Choke Recovery
6/12/09 Khanna, Foreign Policy, The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism
6/12/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bailout Player BlackRock Becomes Biggest Money Manager
6/12/09 Thomson, BBC, Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
6/12/09 Edmonds, IntelDaily, Major DEA Scandal & Time Magazine: Implicated agents have been protected by "watchdog" agencies within the Justice Department
6/12/09 Toy, NYT, Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Carter, Yes!, Are Small Banks America's Next Cash Crop?
6/11/09 Christie, CNN, Investors bet on Detroit housing market
6/11/09 Black, BBC, 'Boom and bust' of deforestation
6/11/09 BBC, World Bank sees even worse slump
6/11/09 BBC, US role in bank takeover examined
6/11/09 Nutting, MarketWatch, Household wealth drops for 7th straight quarter
6/10/09 CNBC, Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
6/11/09 Dedman, MSNBC, Most banks still getting weaker, analysis shows
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 Featherstone, Nation, Out of Reach - Education
6/10/09 Cho et al, WP, Goals Shift For Reform Of Financial Regulation
6/10/09 Hong, LAT, Median home prices drop below 1989 levels in some parts of Southland
6/10/09 Hardikar, IPS, INDIA: Farm Suicides Turn Children Into Farmers
6/10/09 BBC, US to unveil corporate pay rules
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 ESSA Report, June Oversight Report: Stress Testing and Shoring Up Bank Capital (168 pgs. pdf)
6/09/09 NPR: Warren: Stress Test Banks Again
6/09/09 Rexrode, McClatchy, House to subpoena Fed documents on BofA-Merrill deal
6/09/09 Tran, Guardian, Arnold Schwarzenegger to scrap school textbooks in favour of ebooks
6/09/09 BBC, Brazil's economy enters recession
6/09/09 BBC, Ten US banks to pay back bail-out
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Nijman, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Thousands March as Food Crisis Deepens
6/08/08 Abramsky, Guardian, Solving America's hunger crisis
6/08/09 Silva, LAT, Obama's summer jobs plan: work for 600,000 people
6/08/09 Constantini, IPS, LABOUR-US: Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity
6/08/09 Guardian, Icelandic banks complete takeover of West Ham
6/08/09 Madslien, BBC, Military spending sets new record
6/08/09 Kwak, Baseline, "There Were Ratings That We Saw That Made No Sense To Us."
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Child Well-Being Index Foretells Hard Time For Kids
6/07/09 AP, Temp work covers up depth of unemployment
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 Stark, Bellingham Herald, Economist: Housing bubble caused Great Depression, too
6/05/09 Gill, BBC, Rainforest is worth more standing
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Homeowners Seeking Gov't Loan Mods Are Fed Up
6/04/09 Fox, Reuters, Study: Medical Bills Underlie 60 Percent of US Bankruptcies
6/04/09 Clark, Guardian, Former US mortgage chief executive charged with fraud
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Litvinsky, IPS, ECONOMY-US: One in Five Children Sinking Into Poverty
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Noland, Asia Times, US core no longer the magnet
6/02/09 Wilkinson, LAT, Remittances to Mexico down sharply
6/02/09 BBC, Global house prices drop further
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 EEO, China's Hidden Bankruptcy
6/01/09 Epstein, ProPublica, Another Tiny ($2.3 Billion) Accounting Mistake
6/01/09 Adam, Guardian, Amazon Rainforests Pay the Price as Demand for Beef Soars
6/01/09 Homon, Bloomberg, Zoellick Warns Stimulus 'Sugar High' Won't Stem Unemployment
6/01/09 Aresnault, IPS, ENERGY: Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands
6/01/09 BBC, Geithner assures China investors
6/01/09 BBC, GM enters bankruptcy protection
May 31, 2009
5/31/09 Fitzgerald, Boston Herald, Higher-education bubble could burst next
May 30, 2009
5/30/09 McKinley, NYT, Heading to Texas, Hudson's Toxic Mud Stirs Town
5/30/09 Appelbaum & Irwin, WP, Congress's Afterthought, Wall Street's Trillion Dollars
5/30/09 Rothfeld & Bailey, LAT, Deeper budget cuts hit schools and California's neediest
5/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Banks Want Government Subsidies to Buy Assets from Themselves
5/29/09 de Pommereau, CSM, Why Germans are starting to strike - like the French
5/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GM Belongs to Us
5/29/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Manipulation - How Markets Really Work
5/29/09 Epstein, ProPublica, Accounting Error Rolls Back Stimulus Spending Numbers
5/29/09 Norris, NYT, Troubled Bank Loans Hit a Record High
5/29/09 Mechanic, MoJo, What One Stimulus Buck Could Do
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 Greco, FPIF, Overhauling Global Finance
5/28/09 BBC, Global crisis 'hits human rights'
5/28/09 Homig, GoldSeek, The Second Crash - On the Way and Unstoppable
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Bloomberg, World Economy Is Yet to Bottom, People's Bank Says
5/27/09 Chinni, CSM, The persisting foreclosure crisis
5/27/09 BBC, Number of problem US banks soars
5/27/09 Liu, Asia Times, Liquidity drowns meaning of 'inflation'
5/27/09 Voss, BBC, Cuba announces new austerity plan
May 26, 2009
5/26/09 Chen, AlterNet, Foreclosure Crisis Hits Poor Renters Hard: Evicted Families Have to Fight to Live Together
5/26/09 Streitfeld, NYT, Home Prices Decline Again in March
5/26/09 Vanden Heuvel, Nation, The Front Lines of the Economic (and Democracy) Crisis
May 25, 2009
5/25/09 Burridge, Independent, Record rate of decline in economic growth
May 24, 2009
5/24/09 Raum, AP, Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances
5/24/09 LAT, Three families' stories put a face on the pain of California budget cuts
5/24/09 Dorning, LAT, Early retirement claims increase dramatically
May 23, 2009
5/23/09 Haggman, Miami Herald, Real estate bust turns South Dade suburbs into modern ghost towns
5/23/09 Dougherty, NYT, Latvia Races to Cut Deficit to Keep to Its Bailout Deal
5/23/09 Coomarasamy, BBC, Bernard Madoff's hidden victims
5/23/09 Jordan, WSJ, Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Tran, Guardian, UN Poised to Close Gender Gap and Create Women's Agency
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Damon, IntelDaily, World economy in freefall
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 BBC, Somali 'pirate' pleads not guilty
5/21/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, Geithner Plan vs. Paulson Plan
5/21/09 Michel & Grabel, ProPublica, How to Run a Background Check on Companies Awarded Stimulus Contracts
5/21/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Foxes Confirm Fellow Fox As Guardian of the American Henhouse
5/21/09 Edwards, FPIF, World Bank Corruption
5/21/09 Desai & Weir, Reuters, UK risks losing AAA rating
5/21/09 Andrews, NYT, Treasury Is Said to Plan Second Bailout for GMAC
5/21/09 BBC, Markets fall as growth hopes fade
5/21/09 BBC, In search of Europe: Latvia
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, First Buy High; Then Sell Low
5/20/09 NPR, A Global Shortage Of What?
5/20/09 Al Jazeera, UAE abandons monetary union plans
5/20/09 Lipton, NYT, U.S. Insurer of Pensions Sees Flood of Red Ink
5/20/09 Chan, IntelDaily, Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million (out of 7.8 mil.) in 2009
May 19, 2009
5/19/09 Grabel, ProPublica, Some Stimulus Reports Come In
5/19/09 Naiman, TruthOut, Can Treasury Sneak IMF Money Through the Supplemental?
5/19/09 Eder, Reuters, Big banks apply to repay TARP: sources
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 Kuhnhenn, AP, Geithner: No plans to cap executive pay
5/18/09 Jones, CNN, Is it the end of an era for black universities?
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Wiegand, SacBee, The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 Powell & Roberts, Minorities Affected Most as New York Foreclosures Rise
5/15/09 Kiel, MoJo, Two Insurers Join the TARP, More to Come
5/15/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine's economic straits raise worries about radicalism
May 14, 2009
5/14/09 Karoub & Williams, Seattle Times, The city of $10,000 homes: Outside buyers drawn to Detroit's foreclosures
5/14/09 Cho & Goldfarb, WP, U.S. Pushes Ahead With Derivatives Regulation
5/14/09 Munnell, CNN, Social Security healthier than your 401(k)
5/14/09 BBC, Oil falls as demand 'set to drop'
5/14/09 BBC, Chrysler to close 1 in 4 dealers
5/14/09 Reckard & Heisel, LAT, SEC staff recommends civil fraud charges against Mozilo of Countrywide
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Lazo, WP, Immigrant Homeownership Proves Resilient in the Face of Slowdown
5/13/09 Sanz, AP, RealtyTrac: April foreclosures rise 32 percent
5/13/09 Cho & Dennis, WP, Officials Knew of AIG Bonuses Months Before Firestorm
5/13/09 Renner, TruthOut, Actual Bailout May Exceed $10 Trillion
5/13/09 Fresco, TimesOnline, Crime lords 'running empires from jail using PlayStations'
5/13/09 Adler, Reuters, U.S. foreclosures jump to record high
5/13/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Considers Financial Pay Rules
5/13/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Retail Sales Fall for a Second Month
5/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, Next Up: The Battle Over Wall Street Reform
5/13/09 BBC, Japanese trade indicator halves
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 Reuters, U.S. credit rating at risk: former agency chief
5/12/09 Leland, NYT, Minority Home Ownership Gains Fall
5/12/09 Bradsher, NYT, Ships Tread Water, Waiting for Cargo
5/12/09 BBC, Oil above $60 on economy hopes
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Segal, NYT, We're Dull, Small Banks Say, but Have Profits
5/11/09 Weiss, Money & Markets, Five Economic Storms Raging NOW!
5/11/09 Brant, BBC, Is Islamic finance the answer?
5/11/09 Apuzzo & Blackledge, AP, STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest
5/11/09 Al Jazeera, IMF slashes Gulf growth forecast
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests: What Was the Point Again?
5/09/09 Hayes, TimesOnline, Thousands join Army to escape recession
5/09/09 Comlay & Wilchins, Reuters, U.S. banks rush to raise capital
May 8, 2009
5/08/09 King, CNN, Bad economy puts more families on the streets
5/08/09 CNN, Banks unveil cash-raising plans
5/08/09 Kiel, ProPublica, $19 Billion More to Fannie Mae, and More to Come
5/08/09 Drawbaugh & Younglai, Reuters, Admin wants Fed to oversee "systemic risk": sources
5/08/09 Healy, NYT, U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases
5/08/09 Seager, Guardian, Bank of England braced for third wave of financial crisis
5/08/09 Christie, CNN, Mortgage modifications are happening. Get yours
5/08/09 BBC, Ten US banks fail 'stress tests'
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 Miller, ProPublica, Military Fails to Collect From AIG for Care to Injured Contractors
5/07/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Banks That Received Federal Cash Enabled Subprime Lenders, Report Finds
5/07/09 Howell, ITT, Bonuses Make a Comeback
5/07/09 BBC, 'Dumped' dogs turn to cannibalism
5/07/09 Nation, Stressing Over the Bank Stress Tests
5/07/09 Pfierfer, LAT, SEC cracks down on investment fraud
5/07/09 Chen & Lin, Bloomberg, Global Crisis 'Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says
May 6, 2009
5/06/09 Christie, CNN, 20% of homeowners 'underwater'
5/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, AIG Bonuses Nearly Four Times Larger Than Originally Disclosed
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 NPR, Bernanke To Congress: Jobless Recovery Looms
5/05/09 Story & Dash, NYT, U.S. Says Bank of America Needs Cushion of $33.9 Billion
5/05/09 Feffer, FPIF, Capitalist Pigs
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, The Need for New Antitrust Laws
5/04/09 Folbre, NYT, Including Home Production, G.D.P. Might Not Look So Bad
5/04/09 Benjamin & Miller, Bloomberg, 'Great Recession' Will Redefine Full Employment as Jobs Vanish
5/04/09 Veal, IPS, ICELAND: Living With Ghost Towns
5/04/09 Baseline Scenario, Stress Tests for Beginners
5/04/09 BBC, European economy 'will shrink 4%'
May 3, 2009
5/03/09 Leland, Charlotte Observer, The new homeless
5/03/09 Shin, WP, U.S. Workers' Wages Stagnate As Firms Rush to Slash Costs
5/03/09 Beaumont, Guardian, Bosnia lurches into a new crisis
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Nichols, Nation, Bankrupt Bailout Spends Billions to Shut Factories
5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe is broke
5/02/09 Boyles & Bremmer, Times Online, Riot police working overtime as unions and anarchists link arms for May Day
5/02/09 Mason, Reuters, Obama says financial sector to shrink
5/02/09 Leonard, NYT, How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate Fix
5/02/09 CNN, Freedom of the media declines worldwide, report says
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 Johnson, Atlantic, Netanyahu and the 'Future of the Peace Process'
5/01/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, Anger and Fear Fuel May Day Europe Protests
5/01/09 BBC, Bankers made 'astonishing mess'
5/01/09 BBC, Swiss bank refuses US tax request
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 AFP, China has 'canceled US credit card': lawmaker
4/30/09 Rampell, NYT, Gendered Job Losses
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Grim, TurthOut, Bank Lobby on Course to Gut Bankruptcy Bill
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Clark, Guardian, US government may take controlling share of General Motors
4/28/09 Segura, AlterNet, Foreclosure Pets: Soaring Rate of Abandoned Animals Are the Latest Sign of a Deep Economic Crisis
4/28/09 Comley & Kamalakaran, Reuters, BofA, Citi urged to increase capital: report
4/28/09 Reuters, Treasury has new mortgage incentives: official
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Andrews, ProPublica, New Scandal: Pension Fund Pay to Play
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
4/26/09 Taylor, NYT, End the University as We Know It
4/26/09 Faiola, WP, Finance Chiefs Back a Bolder IMF, Bigger Role for Emerging Nations
4/26/09 Hutton, Guardian, Britain's no longer a world power, so let's be a better, fairer nation
4/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Britain urges World Bank to spend $4bn now to protect poorest countries
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 D'Emilio, AP, Italy's Mafia thrives in global financial meltdown
4/25/09 Broder, NYT, Without Superfund Tax, Stimulus Aids Cleanups
4/25/09 Story, NYT, After an Off Year, Wall Street Pay Is Bouncing Back
April 24, 2009
4/24/09 NPR, Shadow Banking
4/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Fed Releases Stress Test Guidelines
4/24/09 Chadborn & Levy, Bloomberg, Regulators Shut Banks in Georgia, Michigan, California, Idaho
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Patterson & Ragir, Bloomberg, Emerging-Market Short Sales Climb Most Since 2007
4/23/09 Alves, Bloomberg, Mexico Corporate Debt Default to Surge, JPMorgan Says
4/23/09 Davis, KC Star, A second wave of home foreclosures is ahead, Fed economist says
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 NPR, Why Banks Won't Lend
4/22/09 Scheer, Nation, Thievery Under TARP
4/22/09 WSJ, Cash-Strapped Cities Try Private Guards Over Police
4/22/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Missed Opportunity
4/22/09 BBC, Darling unveils 50% top tax rate
4/22/09 BBC, Morgan Stanley hit by big losses
4/22/09 Schifferes, BBC, 'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Reuters, Treasury asset plan vulnerable to abuse: watchdog
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 Lillis, Wa. Independent. As Multiple-Death Shootings Surge, Congress Looks Away
4/20/09 Weiss, Money & Markets, Big bank profits are bogus! Massive public deception!
4/20/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Guilty of being poor: Debtors' prisons making a comeback
April 19, 2009
4/19/09 Blas, FT, US urges food output boost to avert unrest
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Chien & Chen, Reuters, China says key currency countries need watching
4/18/09 Hall, News&Observer, Bartering is a modern trade
4/18/09 Abate, SF Chron, State unemployment rate highest since 1941
4/18/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Wall Street wounded Ghana. IMF tonic could hurt it more
4/18/09 Mercer, BBC, Tasmania's wombat poo paper a hit
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Reuters, U.S. closed banks match total for all of 2008
4/17/09 Rampell, NYT, Does 'Financial Innovation' Hurt or Help the Poor?
4/17/09 Hakim & Walsh, NYT, In State Pension Inquiry, a Scandal Snowballs
4/17/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
4/17/09 Collinson & Levine, Guardian, Building societies face awful truth about boom-time spending spree
4/17/09 Feffer, FPIF, Empire Foreclosed?
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
4/17/09 BBC, G20 death was not heart attack
4/17/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Area Mall Owner's Crisis Signals Wave of Distress
4/17/09 Reuters, U.S. business worried China stimulus favors locals
4/17/09 Kollewe, Guardian, Citigroup's first profit since 2007 makes it three in a row for US banks
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Al Jazeera, Lula attacks rich nations on crisis
4/16/09 Applebaum, WP, J.P. Morgan Chase Reports Strong 1Q Earnings
4/16/09 NPR, IMF Sees Long Recession
4/16/09 Gutierrez & Drash, CNN, Folks losing homes dial 1-800; no one answers
4/16/09 Miller, ProPublica, Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care From AIG and Other Insurers...'Forgotten Warriors': Russell Skoug's Story ... Forgotten Warriors': Explanation of Analysis... 'Forgotten Warriors': Tim Newman's Story
4/16/09 Jonas & Chasan, Reuters, General Growth files largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 WSJ, Banks Ramp Up Foreclosures
4/15/09 Keen, USA Today, Economic survivalists take root
4/15/09 Independent, 1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
4/15/09 SI, Xinhua, Strikes spread worldwide amid global economic downturn
4/15/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, The coming siege of Austerity
4/15/09 Kollewe, Guardian, US economy goes back to 1955 as deflation returns
4/15/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work
4/15/09 Clark, Guardian, Lehman Brothers Sitting on a Stockpile of Uranium 'Yellowcake'
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pirate Bankers, Shadow Economies
4/14/09 Stevenson, AP, Mexico slams Burger King for 'whopper' of insult
4/14/09 Wiley, Progressive, Race needs to be taken into account on economy
4/14/09 Carter, MoJo, Is Geithner's Hedge-Fund Bailout Illegal?
4/14/09 Alcala, SacBee, Being a stay-at-home dad is just fine ... except for that feeling of isolation
4/14/09 Healy, NYT, Weak Retail and Price Data Dim Hopes of Quick Recovery
4/14/09 BBC, Poland to seek $20bn IMF credit
4/14/09 Atalli, L'Express, The Geithner Bubble
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 WSJ, Green Ink: Forget Peak Oil; Peak Gasoline is Already Here
4/13/09 Whitney, AlterNet, Is Geithner's Game Up? Damning Report Calls BS on His Smoke-and-Mirrors Bank Rescue Plan
4/13/09 Rich, NYT, We've Got to Leave This Bankrupt Culture Behind
4/13/09 Martin, IntelDaily, Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis
4/13/09 Kozy, IntelDaily, The Economic Crisis: No, this will not be a Normal Cyclical Recovery
4/13/09 VOA News, Zimbabwe Suspends Use of Own Currency
April 12, 2009
4/10/09 Hirsch, Newsweek, Wall Street Digs In
4/12/09 Bradsher, NYT, China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds
4/12/09 Herzenhorn, NYT, Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight
4/12/09 Doran, Guardian, Goldman Sachs plans $6bn rights issue to repay Treasury loan
4/12/09 BaselineScenario, Why Bail Out Life Insurers?
4/12/09 Heisel, LAT, HUD's Dollar Homes falls short of mission
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Uygur, AlterNet, How the Toxic Asset Plan Will Magically Make Your Money Disappear
4/11/09 Head, BBC, Asean fiasco deepens Thai stalemate
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 Baseline Scenario, Does The US Still Face An Emerging Market-Type Crisis?
4/10/09 Barnes, LAT, Obama requests $83.4 billion more for war spending
4/10/09 IntelDaily, Local US currency strengthens community
4/10/09 Burghardt, IntelDaily, The Political Economy of Taliban Terror in Swat Valley
4/10/09 Hobsbawm, Guardian, Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?
4/10/09 BBC, Georgians plan mass disobedience
4/10/09 Fox, Time, Social Security's Surplus Disappearing Fast in Downturn
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Schulman & Stein, MoJo, Revolving Door, Bailout Edition
4/09/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Poor Pay Price of Progress in India
4/09/09 Irwin, WP, How Bernanke Staged a Revolution
4/09/09 Pilkington, Guardian, Reality TV's latest wheeze: make US workers compete to keep jobs
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 AP, SEC advancing options on short-selling rules
4/08/09 Zeidler, Reuters, Some job seekers invest in plastic surgery to compete
4/08/09 Reuters, Treasury says some insurers qualify for TARP
4/08/09 Gimein, MSN, Why home prices may never recover
4/08/09 Lawder & Somerville, Reuters, Fed sees economy sliding further
4/08/09 Boley & de la Merced, NYT, U.S. May Enlist Small Investors in Bank Bailout
4/08/09 Woods & Grecco, FPIF, G20 and Global Poverty
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Mencimer, MoJo, Obama Sides With Banks Accused of Racism
4/07/09 Stein, AlterNet, Locavore to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession-Proof Food
4/07/09 Fagan, SF Chron, Ranks of Homeless Swell as Middle Class Teeters
4/07/09 Nation, Meltdown 101
4/07/09 Reuters, AIG's asset management division gets bidders: report
4/07/09 Reuters, CEO confidence falls to record low
4/07/09 Douglas, ITT, Let's Expose the Poster Boys of Greed
4/07/09 Healy, NYT, Bank Worries Return to Wall Street
4/07/09 Buchanan, BBC, Irish downturn hits man and beast
4/07/09 BBC, Eurozone's GDP revised downwards
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Klare, Nation, Global Crime Wave?
4/06/09 Rugaber, AP, Government cracking down on mortgage scams
4/06/09 Chiacu, Reuters, Geithner denies White House sidestepping CEO pay limits
4/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, The Myth of "Objectivity": NYT Editorializes Against Unions While Moving Against Its Own Unions
4/06/09 Eley, IntelDaily, Behind the surge on Wall Street
4/06/09 Gupta, AlterNet, Shocking Scenarios: Rapid Economic Contraction May Lead to New Wars and Radicalized Politics
4/06/09 Grabel, ProPublica, OMB Issues New Stimulus Guidance
4/06/09 Uchitelle, NYT, Economy Falling Years Behind Full Speed
4/06/09 McDonald, McClatchy, Survivalists 2.0: Regular people get ready for the worst
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 NPR, What 8.5 Percent Looks Like
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 Pizzagati, AlterNet, Down But Not Out at $464 Million a Year
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Holland, AlterNet, Proof that Geithner's Bank Plan Is a Massive Giveaway to the Bastards Who Started This Mess
4/03/09 Bernstein, ProPublica, Chronicle of a Bank Failure Foretold
4/03/09 Reich, TruthOut, It's a Depression
4/03/09 Suri, IPS, G20: Where Is the Money, and Who Is the Moneylender
4/03/09 Engdahl, Asia Times, Geithner's dirty little secret
4/03/09 Giroux, TruthOut, Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
4/03/09 IntelDaily, Civil Unrest, Ghost Malls, and Another American Revolution
4/03/09 Simon, WSJ Sharp Cuts in Monthly Payments Reduce Redefault Rate, Study Finds
4/03/09 BBC, OECD names and shames tax havens
4/03/09 BBC, Further jump in US unemployment
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 Dixon, Reuters, Greenberg spars with lawmakers over AIG mess
4/02/09 Reuters, One in 10 Americans gets help to buy food
4/02/09 Felsenthal, Reuters, Senate OKs measure calling on Fed to name firms
4/02/09 BBC, Voices: Inside Japan's recession
4/02/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, G20 leaders begin talks to bury 'free' markets
4/02/09 TimesOnline, G20 could give $1 trillion stimulus to boost world economy
4/02/09 AP, New Accounting Rules for Mortgage-Backed Securities
4/02/09 Guru, Asia Times, We still owe the rich
4/02/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The Mark-to-Market Myth
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 BBC, IMF eases Ivory Coast debt burden
4/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The New Masters of the Universe
4/01/09 Bernstein & Thompson, ProPublica, Audit Checks Uncover Weakness in Lender Loss Reserves
4/01/09 Reuters, IMF sees world economy shrinking up to 1 percent in 2009
4/01/09 Willis, Bloomberg, ADP Says U.S. Companies Reduced Payrolls by 742,000
4/01/09 Hall, McClatchy, Rule change intended to ease bank crisis could make it worse
4/01/09 CNN, Affidavit: Madoff associates knew of scheme, joined anyway
4/01/09 Bridges, CSM, Why Brazil is weathering the global financial crisis this time
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Adams, McClatchy, Watchdogs: Treasury won't disclose bank bailout details
3/31/09 Seager & Kollewe, Guardian, G20 leaders get OECD warning that global trade is in freefall
3/31/09 Johnson, CNN, Homeowner who shot herself amid eviction dies
3/31/09 Marquand, CSM, Germany's hard line on the stimulus: Why Merkel says 'Nein'
3/31/09 Dolan, WSJ, Blame Is Put on Management, but More Pain Looms for Hourly Workers, Retirees
3/31/09 NPR, 'The Zone Of Sanity'
3/31/09 Grieder, AlterNet, A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way -- We've Got to Stop It
3/31/09 Wasserman, SacBee, Yuba County tops nation in 'underwater' loans
3/31/09 Remmer, TruthOut, Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
3/31/09 Kollewe, Guardian, UK has run out of money to pump into economy, OECD warns
3/31/09 BBC, World Bank warns of deep slowdown
3/31/09 BBC, US house prices 'see record fall'
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 Baseline Scenario, Structured Finance for Beginners
3/30/09 Wasserman, AlterNet, Coal Industry Reacts to EPA Crackdown on Mountaintop Removal Mining with Lies about Job Losses
3/30/09 Daly, Reuters, U.S. lawmakers press Fed for minority access to bailout
3/30/09 Jelveh, NYT, Houses of God: Did Evangelicals Curb the Housing Bubble?
3/30/09 Vartabedian & Hamburger , LAT, AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg>A?
3/30/09 Collins, Fresno Times, Life in Mendota, Calif., where the jobless rate is 41 percent
3/26/09 Johnson, Reuters, Financier sees oil shock from credit crunch
3/30/09 Grey, WSWS, US: Unemployment hits double digits in seven states
3/30/09 Bawden, IntelDaily, The Tipping Point of the Dollar
3/30/09 Ford, CSM, Ahead of G-20, China questions US's financial dominance
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Gordon, Baltimore Sun, College students sell the CIA to their peers
3/29/09 Kole, AP, Bosnia's jobless rate at 43 percent and rising
3/29/09 Razzi, WP, Overhaul Targets Money Market
3/29/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Money For Nothing
3/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Tax havens batten down as the hurricane looms
3/29/09 McVeigh & Lewis, Guardian, The 'revolution' starts here as 35,000 pack the G20 march
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 Lewis et al, Guardian, G20 protests: Cry havoc - and let slip a rainbow alliance of summit protesters
3/28/09 Grieder, Nation, Trust Your Guts
3/28/09 Bourne, TimesOnline, G20 protests begin with wet march through London
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Role reversal: Some Americans seeking jobs head to India
3/27/09 Lantier, IntelDaily, Global investors ponder implications of US dollar collapse
3/27/09 Goldfarb, WP, Freddie Mac's Duel With Regulator: Does It Report Government's Role in Its Losses?
3/27/09 BBC, Slowdown blights DR Congo economy
3/27/09 Fox, Guardian, How not to look like a banker
3/27/09 Krugman, NYT, The Market Wizards Were Exposed as Frauds -- Too Bad Obama's Team Still Believes in Their Magic
3/27/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil's leader blames white people for crisis
3/27/09 Boxun, Chinese Migrant Workers Totaled 225.42 Million at the End of 2008
3/27/09 Seager, Guardian, UK recession: 'It's even worse than we thought,' says ONS
3/27/09 Treanor, Guardian, Lloyds and Halifax City branches set to shut during G20 protests
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Baseline Scenario, What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could
3/26/09 NPR, U.K. Can't Sell Its Debt
3/26/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Bonus Social Security Payments, Like Flowers, to Sprout in May
3/26/09 Prtoess, ProPublica, Stop the Clock: Treasury Releases Bailout Contract
3/26/09 Gorman & Hurt, Reuters, Hidden Homeless Emerge as US Economy Worsens
3/26/09 Fiore, MoJo, Leverage Me Tender
3/26/09 Hunt, BBC, Will the US dollar remain king?
3/26/09 Taibbi, AlterNet, AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right
3/26/09 NPR, Blaming Glass-Steagall
3/26/09 Sherman, Times Online, 'Negligent' councils broke rules to invest in Icelandic banks
3/26/09 Andrews & Story, NYT, Geithner Calls for Major Overhaul of Financial Rules
3/26/09 GritTV, Geithner Should Go: Matt Taibbi, Robert Johnson, and Jane Hamsher
3/26/09 Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record
3/26/09 Sirota, Open Left, "Their Stated Goal Is to Protect Business Interests"
3/26/09 BBC, US economy sees quicker decline
3/26/09 Mock & McLaughlin, Independent, Fears of unrest in eastern Europe grow as Czech government collapses
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Hard the Fed Looked for AIG's Potential Losses
3/25/09 Dreyfus, Nation, The Real Economic Crisis
3/25/09 Andrews, ProPublica, Freddie Mac Loan Contractor Has Spotty Record
3/25/09 McKinley, NYT, Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns
3/25/09 Hopkins, ADN, Villages will get free Citgo heating fuel again
3/25/09 Scheer, Nation, Obama's Toxic Advisers
3/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Geithner outlines regulatory changes for financial system
3/25/09 MINA, U.S. State wants to use Silver, Gold as legal tender
3/25/09 McClatchy, $410,000 in 2006, $112,00 now: When will prices hit bottom?
3/25/09 BBC, Romania gets IMF emergency loan
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 Haynes, WP, Senate to Consider Relief for Credit Card Holders
3/24/09 Reuters, Bernanke: AIG shows urgent need for new regulations
3/24/09 Englehardt, MoJo, Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
3/24/09 Hamilton, LAT, U.S. workers at AIG return $50 million in bonuses
3/24/09 Grieder, Nation, Obama's New Monopoly Set
3/24/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, U.S. Seeks Expanded Power in Seizing Firms
3/24/09 Malveaux, CNN, Geithner to seek unprecedented powers, insiders say
3/24/09 Steffan & Feyerick, CNN, Tenant evicted even though she pays rent on time
3/24/09 Chopra, CSM, Debt weighs on Indian middle class
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 Binyamin & Cho, NYT, White House to Seek Power to Seize Non-Bank Financial Companies
3/23/09 RIA Novosti, China ready to discuss new reserve currency at G20 summit
3/23/09 Reuters, AIG rivals met Bernanke to complain: report
3/23/09 Baltic Times, Human trafficking from Lithuania increases
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Stewart & Elliott, Observer, World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe
3/22/09 Cho, WP, Treasury Presses Ahead With Plan For Toxic Assets
3/22/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, As credit markets froze, banks loaned millions to insiders
3/22/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Krugman Cuts To The Chase
3/22/09 Elliott, Guardian, Time for change: five proposals - global economy.
March 21, 2009
3/21/09 Caruso, AP, Details emerge of money to refund Madoff victims
3/21/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Coloring Opportunity: The Regional Geography of Structural Racism in The NYC Region
3/21/09 Preston, NYT, A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force
3/21/09 CNN, Connecticut attorney general says AIG understated bonuses
3/21/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Embedded In Wall Street
3/21/09 BBC, AIG bonuses 'higher than thought'
3/21/09 White & Lifsher, LAT, Blacks lose ground in job slump
3/21/09 Baseline Scenario, This Time I'm Not the One Calling It a Subsidy
3/21/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, BofA's insider loans zoomed in 2008, but no one will say why
3/21/09 CNN, Zoellick slams 'sugar high' stimulus plans
3/21/09 BBC, US banking losses revised upward
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 Brush, The Hill, Frank Asks Fannie, Freddie to Halt Bonuses
3/20/09 Gordon & Hall, AIG still a major threat to global economy, top official says
3/20/09 Minow, CNN, Commentary: Boards are real culprits in AIG mess
3/20/09 CNN, Dodd defends actions as an AIG exec returns $6 million bonus
3/20/09 Clifford, CNN, U.S. seizes 2 big credit unions
3/20/09 Baseline Scenario, Parallel Bankers
3/20/09 NPR, How Many Toxic Assets Are There?
3/20/09 Lopatka & Prenesti, Reuters, EU backs stronger IMF, eastern aid lifeline
3/20/09 BBC, U.S. SEC probes subprime, builders, hedge funds
3/20/09 Story, NYT, $2.5 Billion in Merrill Bonuses Would Not Be Covered by Tax
3/20/09 Healy, NYT, Fed Chief Calls for Scrutiny of Pay at Financial Firms
3/20/09 Toy, NYT, Up in Smoke: The Deposit Vanishes
3/20/09 White, CSM, Latvia uses police to quash talk of economic collapse
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Which Hedge Funds Are Collecting Under the AIG Bailout?
3/19/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Banks Lied to the Government While Getting Taxpayers to Hand Over Billions
3/19/09 Reuters, Obama administration launches mortgage aid website
3/19/09 Poirier, Reuters, U.S. systemic risk watchdog not panacea: regulators
3/19/09 Mutikani, Reuters, U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record high
3/19/09 Saltmarsh & Jolly, NYT, Workers Protest Across France
3/19/09 Hamburger & Hook, LAT, In AIG flap, it's not just about bonuses anymore
3/19/09 McKenzie, FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
3/18/09 Gaunt, Reuters, U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
3/19/09 Sender, FT, Banks warned on commercial property 'black hole'
3/19/09 CNN, Dodd: Administration pushed for language protecting bonuses
3/19/09 CNN, Four Fannie Mae execs to get big bonuses
3/19/09 CNN, Watch AIG's payouts, not the bonuses, Spitzer says
3/19/09 BBC, Iceland interest rates cut to 17%
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Koeppel, ConsortiumNews, Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
3/18/09 Gillies, AP, Bush says it's 'essential' to help Obama
3/18/09 Faiola, WP, Trade Barriers Could Threaten Global Economy
3/18/09 Arce, IntelDaily, Latin America hit hard by world crisis
3/18/09 Wearden, Guardian, UK faces worse recession than US and Europe, IMF warns
3/18/09 CNN, New indictment filed against NY lawyer in fraud case
3/18/09 BBC, US to force AIG to repay bonuses
3/18/09 BBC, World Bank lowers China forecast
3/18/09 BBC, (UK) Unemployment passes two million
3/18/09 Coniff, Progressive, Forget AIG Bonuses--The Next Bailout is Here
3/18/09 Klare, FPIF, The Second Shockwave
3/18/09 BBC, Fed pumps $1.2tn into US economy
3/18/09 Stoupe, Asia Times, China inoculates itself against dollar collapse (Part 3)... Part 1, Part 2
3/18/09 Delasantellis, Asia Times, Justice on Comedy Central
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Katine, Guardian, Remittances: Time for payback
3/17/09 McCullagh, CBS, Report Says 163 Banks Could Be At Risk
3/17/09 Dedman, MSNBC, U.S. banks suffer 149 percent rise in bad loans
3/17/09 ElBoghdady, WP, Mortgage Fraud Up As Credit Tightens
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Baseline Scenario, Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy
3/16/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Another $8 Billion Or So on the Line for AIG
3/16/09 Clark, McClatchy, Latin Americans in U.S. sending less money home, bank says
3/16/09 LAT, Industrial output down for 4th straight month
3/16/09 Shachtman, WIred, U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare'
3/16/09 Lans, WP, Pension Check Guarantees Mean More Budget Woes
3/16/09 Annan, Guardian, A message from Africa
3/16/09 BBC, Crisis 'will cost Africa $49bn'
3/16/09 Pierce, ProPublica, Stimulus Oversight Chief Questions Jobs Numbers Too
3/16/09 Renner, Truthout, Dr. Ravi Batra: New Thinking on the Economy
3/16/09 Alexander, Reuters, Obama unveils steps to aid small businesses
3/16/09 Rampell, NYT, The State of State Budgets
3/16/09 Brown, CNN, AIG 'recklessness and greed'
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Davis, KC Star, Lenexa-based credit union's woes will cost the entire industry
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
3/14/09 Schulte, WP, A Trashed Economy Foretold
3/14/09 Boxun, 4000 billion is only 1/3 of its plan, yet still a secret
3/14/09 Hubert, SacBee, Some feel burned as media spotlight falls on capital's homeless camp
3/14/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism--A Roadmap For Current Debates
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Desai, Reuters, G20 rift deepens ahead of crisis response talks
3/13/09 Reuters, BofA seeks more jumbo mortgages: report
3/13/09 Wines & Bradsher, NYT, China's Leader Says He Is 'Worried' Over U.S. Treasuries
3/13/09 Baumann, MoJo, What Economic Crisis?
3/13/09 Guru, Asia Times, Dodging the black hole
3/13/09 Norris, NYT, In This Recession, More Men Are Losing Jobs
3/13/09 Sanchez, KC Star, Commentary: It's time for America to think straight about class
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 Zuckoff, NYT, A Face of the Economic Meltdown
3/12/09 World Focus, Authorities: Madoff used London office to launder money
3/12/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Bailed Out Bank Had Friends in High Places
3/12/09 Cho & Faiola, WP, Treasury Seeks Billions More to Aid Ailing Nations
3/12/09 Reuters, U.S. House to explore financial crisis prosecutions
3/12/09 Crutsinger, AP, Household net worth plunges by record amount
3/12/09 AP, Initial Jobless Claims Increase Again
3/12/09 Seliger, ITT, From Russia With Mercy
3/12/09 Savan, Nation, Stewart Asks Cramer: "Where's the D'Oh!"
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Wintour et al, Guardian,G20 deal at risk as US-Europe rift grows
3/11/09 Baseline Scenario, Financial Crisis Macroeconomics for Beginners
3/11/09 Goldfarb & AHrens, WP, SEC Chairman Says Agency Faces Cuts Without Additional Funding
3/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work: TARP Subsidizing Banks' Overseas Deals
3/11/09 Reuters, Greenspan says Fed didn't cause the housing bubble
3/11/09 Wroughton, Reuters, IMF chief says bank cleanup too slow
3/11/09 Bunkley, NYT, U.A.W. Deal Cuts Hourly Rate to $55
3/11/09 BBC, Obama calls for G20 joint action
3/11/09 Eyal, Nation, The Perfect Storm
3/11/09 Grieder, Nation, Fixing the Fed
3/11/09 Cha, WP, Plummeting Chinese Exports Shock Economists
3/11/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Third Bank Says It Will Return Bailout Funds...But 487 Banks Keep Theirs
3/11/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
3/11/09 Appel, IPS, CORRUPTION-US: Homeowner Rip-Offs Spark Scores of Lawsuits
3/11/09 BBC, Youngest billionaires lose money
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Eckholm, NYT, Living in Motels, the Hidden Homeless
3/10/09 Labaton, WP, Some Banks, Citing Strings, Want to Return Aid
3/10/09 Byron, CNN, U.N. report: Forestry can create 10 million jobs
3/10/09 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
3/10/09 Page, USA today, 24 million go from 'thriving' to 'struggling'
3/10/09 Brewster, FT, US companies pull out of retirement contributions
3/10/09 Gupta, Huffington Post, The Change We Need I: A Bank for America
3/10/09 Becker, PSL, Capitalism: a system of mass destruction
3/10/09 Healy, NYT, Bernanke Says Financial Rules Need an Overhaul
3/10/09 Samath, IPS, ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Return of the IMF
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
3/10/09 McDonnell, Guardian, Time for a new People's Charter
3/10/09 CNN, Report: 1 in 50 U.S. children face homelessness
3/10/09 BBC, US job prospects hit 27-year low
3/10/09 BBC, Worst crisis since 1930s says Fed
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Fitts, Scoop, Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
3/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Morning Cup of Stimulus: Illegal Immigrants?
3/09/09 Dorschner, Miami Herald, Consumers Curb Medical Treatment to Save Money
3/09/09 Baseline, President Obama's Implied Future For Derivatives
3/09/09 Turse, MoJo, Younger and Hungrier in America
3/09/09 Strupcaewski, Reuters, EU finmins to back doubling of IMF funds at G20
3/09/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, Forget About "Recovery"
3/09/09 Reuters, AIG warned of global turmoil before rescue: report
3/09/09 Stempel, Reuters, Buffett says economy fell off cliff
3/09/09 Murphy, LAT, Oregon schools face last resort: a shorter year
3/09/09 Puzzanghera, LAT, Why the world's biggest insurance company is still getting taxpayer funds
3/09/09 Miller, Bloomberg, Depression Dynamic Ensues as Markets Revisit 1930s
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Reuters, Protesters target U.S. foreclosed-homes auctioneer
3/08/09 Andrews, NYT, World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in '09
3/08/09 Goodman, NYT, Appeal of the Dollar Adds to the Pain of Ailing Nations
3/08/09 Rosenwald, WP, House Trap - Upside-Down Owners Missed by Rescue Long to Exhale
3/08/09 Reinhold, Reuters, Who got AIG's bailout billions?
3/08/09 Sheffield, CNN, Not even renters safe from foreclosure storm
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Rovira, PSL, Suicides spread as economic crisis deepens
3/07/09 Friedman, NYT, The Inflection Is Near?
3/07/09 Zibel et al, AP, When economy bottoms out, how will we know?
3/07/09 Abdullah, McClatchy, For ex-offenders, older workers, uneducated, jobs even harder to find
3/07/09 Powell, NYT, Mortgage Fraud Case Poses Federal Quandary
3/07/09 BBC, Treasury takes 65% Lloyds stake
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Follow the Stimulus Money
3/06/09 Palletta, WSJ, Bill Seeks to Let FDIC Borrow up to $500 Billion
3/06/09 Park, CNN, Why we're sleeping less
3/06/09 McDonald, NYT, Wall Street Opens Higher on U.S. Jobs Report
3/06/09 Loht, NYT, Piecemeal Layoffs Avoid Warning Laws
3/06/09 Healy, NYT, 651,000 Jobs Reported Lost in February
3/06/09 Ordonoz, Charlotte, Observer, Bill aims to keep aid from illegal immigrants
3/06/09 Messina, CMS, Icelanders knit crafty response to global crisis
3/06/09 BBC, Asian shares slide as fears grow
March 5, 2009
3/05/09 Kiel, ProPublica, GMAC, MetLife Among Banks Undergoing Stress Tests
3/05/09 Adler, Reuters, One in 8 U.S. households late paying or in foreclosure
3/05/09 Reuters, Former Merrill execs invested in Madoff funds: report
3/05/09 Vekshin, Bloomberg, Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year (Update1)
3/05/09 BBC, 'Substantial doubt' for GM future
3/05/09 Hall, McClatchy, It may be a decade before Dow's back to 12,000, oracle says
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 BBC, Poor being hit by crisis says IMF
3/04/09 Mirchandani, BBC, OC's rich rush to cash in on gold
3/04/09 Moyers, Nation, Economist Robert Johnson on 'Zombie' Banks
3/04/09 Kotlowitz, NYT, All Boarded Up
3/04/09 Drawbaugh & Daly, Reuters, UBS refuses to give U.S. names, replaces chairman
3/02/09 Huus, MSNBC, 'Tidal wave' of homeless students hits schools
3/04/09 BBC, Live text: Brown faces Congress
3/04/09 AP, Details of Home Loan Plan Are Released
3/04/09 Eckel, Post & Courrier, Russian scholar says US will collapse _ next year
3/04/09 Scheer, Nation, AIG: Billions Dished Out in the Dark
3/04/09 Stempel, Reuters, One in five U.S. mortgage borrowers are underwater
3/04/09 Ehrenreich & Fletcher, Nation, Reimagining Socialism
3/04/09 CNN, Target to open 27 new stores
3/04/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Bank Bailout That Works
3/04/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Europe: Prison of nations
3/04/09 Luhby, CNN, Obama foreclosure fix open for business
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Stimulus Watchdog
3/03/09 Wintour & Sparrow, Guardian, Global Recession Emerged From US, Brown to Tell Congress
3/03/09 von Hoffman, Nation, The Second Great Depression
3/03/09 Deen, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Financial Crisis Threatens Women's Meagre Gains
3/03/09 BBC, Fed's Bernanke fears stagnation
3/03/09 Lipton, NYT, Ex-Leaders at Countrywide Start Firm to Buy Bad Loans
3/03/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession
3/03/09 Irwin, WP, Government Finalizes New $200B Lending Program
3/03/09 Reuters, Obama considers funds to buy bad assets: report
3/03/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Foreign tax havens targeted in U.S. bills
3/03/09 Love, Reuters, Downturn to be considerably deeper than IMF forecast: OECD
3/03/09 BBC, Spanish jobless total rises again
3/03/09 Rampell, NYT, Tax Fallacies: Explaining Marginal Tax Rates
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Waggoner, AP, Some nonprofits can't touch their money
3/02/09 Cho, WP, On Economy, Two United Voices Steer Obama Agenda
3/02/09 Charter, Times Online, New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor
3/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, AIG: The Tally Mounts (And Gets Murkier)
3/02/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, What Next? The collapse of complex systems...
3/02/09 Simon, CNN, Working professionals head to food bank
3/02/09 Lopatka & Dokoupil, Reuters, EU says crisis worst in memory, helping new EU states
Originally published 2/14/09 Dmitry Orlov, Cluborlov, Social Collapse Best Practices
3/02/09 Torgonvick, CNN, When women bring home the bacon
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Lyon, Salt Lake Tribune, Iraqi Refugees Returning to Danger Zone to Escape Poverty in Utah
3/01/09 Chavez, Dallas Morning News, Number of Homeless Students Rising in Dallas-Area Districts
3/01/09 Luo, Seattle Times, Laid-off professionals turn to "survival jobs"
3/01/09 Holland, Modesto Bee, Jump-starting job creation: What works?
3/01/09 Brand, AP, Merkel rejects bailout plan for eastern EU nations
3/01/09 Bowers, Guardian, Hedge fund thinks bank slide is over
3/01/09 BBC, Chavez sends army to rice plants
3/01/09 BBC, America's trillion dollar question
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Fisher, PSL, Thousands of mine jobs in South Africa slashed
2/28/09 Fisher, PSL, Irish workers take to the streets to protect jobs and wages
2/28/09 AP, Berkshire Reports 62% Drop in 2008 Profit
2/28/09 Pifer-Bixler, CNN, No job, no insurance -- Now what?
2/28/09 BBC, Malaysian plan to oust foreign workers
2/28/09 Alieva, Asia Times, Tajik cotton farms picked clean
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 Applebaum, WP, Bank Failures Take Toll on Insurance Fund
2/27/09 Mutikani, Reuters, U.S. economy plummets
2/27/09 Nichols & Moore, Reuters, In hard times, more U.S. women try to sell their eggs
2/27/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Mortgage Bankruptcy Reform Update
2/27/09 IntelDaily, Hedge Funds Pulling Most of Their Money Out of Market at the End of Each Day
2/27/09 BBC, Argentina-US row over CIA comment
2/27/09 BBC, US increases stake in Citigroup
2/27/09 Dymond, BBC, Hungarians feel force of economic storm
February 26, 2009
2/26/08 BBC, Global marketplaces feel the downturn
2/26/09 Nasaw, Guardian, Obama's budget projects estimated $1.75tn deficit
2/26/09 Read, AP, Source: Citi-gov't aid deal may come this week
2/26/09 AP, Official: Obama budget sees $1.75 trillion deficit
2/26/09 LAT, 667K new jobless claims; continuing claims top 5M
2/26/09 Vembu, DNA, 'Next oil shock will be far worse than $147 a barrel'
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Reuters, AIG may abandon asset sales plan: report
2/25/09 Hall, McClatchy, Now, the details: Treasury to give banks unlimited refills
2/25/09 Levey, LAT, Medicare cuts, tax hike on wealthy to pay for healthcare plan
2/25/09 Merle, WP, U.S. Stocks Fall in Early Trading
2/25/09 Nishikawa, Reuters, WTO urges G20 to uphold pledge to fight protectionism
2/25/09 Klare, IntelDaily, A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?
2/25/09 Telegraph, Global financial crisis 'could put end to civil war crimes tribunal'
2/25/09 Gardiner, FPIF, It's a Global Economic Crisis
2/25/09 BBC, Long hours link to dementia risk
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 CNN, Cost overruns have military facing 'train wreck,' McCain says
2/24/09 BBC, Latvian debt is given junk status
2/24/09 Kiel, ProPublica, The Delphic Temple at Treasury: Can You Read the Signs?
2/24/09 BBC, US recession 'may last into 2010'
2/24/09 Huffington, Huffington Post, The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino
2/24/09 CNN, Indian woman accused of selling baby for $130
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 Naiman, Truthout, Guadeloupe Strikes: A Warning to Obama?
2/23/09 Reuters, Financial job losses accelerating: U.N. agency
2/23/09 NYT, A.I.G. to Seek More Government Aid
2/23/09 Turse, MoJo, Closing Down Main Street
2/23/09 Rodriguez, CNN, In tough economy, working 7 days becomes norm for some
2/23/09 Applebaum, WP, Government Moves to Shore Up Banking System
2/23/09 Lamb, Guardian, Fairtrade Week: smallholders farm a route out of poverty
2/23/09 Salmon, Wired, Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
February 22, 2009
2/22/09 Jacobs, NYT, China Fears Tremors as Jobs Vanish From Coast
2/22/09 Falloon, Reuters, Europe says all markets must be regulated
2/22/09 Therolf, LAT, 20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid
2/22/09 Travis, Guardian, Foreign workers could be barred from entering UK
2/22/09 Hrizi, PSL, Stimulus package aimed at salvaging capitalism
2/22/09 Lawder, Reuters, U.S. bank stress tests to show capital needs: source
2/22/09 Reuters, EU leaders back oversight, tax haven sanctions
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 de Costa & Lagorio, Reuters, Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse"
2/21/09 Shin, WP, Support Urged for Eastern Europe
2/21/09 BBC, Huge protest over Irish economy
2/21/09 Etzler & FlorCruz, CNN, Road to riches ends for 20 million Chinese poor
2/21/09 Ford, CSM, China, taking advantage of global recession, goes on a buying spree
2/21/09 Ferguson & Johnson, Nation, Nationalize Failing Banks? GOP and Single-Payer 2.0
2/21/09 Morgenson, NYT, After Losses, a Move to Reclaim Executives' Pay
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Askari & Krichene, Asia Times, G-7 points to more instability
2/20/09 Sirota, Open Left, Market Populism vs. Grassroots Populism - Which Side Are You On?
2/20/09 Barboza, NYT, With Cash to Spend, China Starts Investing Globally
2/20/09 GW Blog, The Next Big Thing: Barter
2/20/09 White, WSWS, Nearly five million on jobless benefits in US
2/20/09 CNN, Bank of America's CEO is subpoenaed
2/20/09 BBC, Zimbabwe recovery costs 'massive'
2/20/09 BBC, Latvian PM quits as crisis bites
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Felsenthal & Bull, Reuters, Bernanke cuts growth view, considers inflation target
2/19/09 Weaver & Brannigan, Miami Herald, Swiss bank USB to pay U.S. in tax havens scheme
2/19/09 Allen, ITT, All-Consuming Poverty
February 18, 2009
2/18/09 Crutsinger, AP, Home construction drops far more than expected
2/18/09 Al Jazeera, GM and Chrysler to shed 50,000 jobs
2/18/09 AL Jazeera, Violent protests hit French island
2/18/09 AL Jazeera, US production 'worse than expected'
2/18/09 Tse, WP, Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe
2/18/09 Healy, NYT, Obama Plans $75 Billion Outlay to Fight Foreclosures
2/18/09 BBC, Obama's housing plan to help 9m
2/18/09 BBC, Germany drafts bank takeover law
2/18/09 BBC, Zimbabwe pays wages in US dollar
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 The Economist, Doubling Up. Why the IMF is scrambling to raise extra capital.
2/17/09 Heller, OpenLeft, Burger King Bailout Shocker
2/17/09 Santos, NYT, Resisting Home Evictions Becomes a Group Effort
2/17/09 Hamilton, LAT, Stocks plunge on concerns over banking system
2/17/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Are Flat in U.S. and Lower in Europe
2/17/09 Zavis, LAT, Wealthy cities discovering they're not recession-proof
2/17/09 AP, Largest banks that received aid cut lending
2/17/09 Mandel, Business Week, Stock Decline Hits Depression Levels
2/17/09 Goldsmith, News&Observer, Recession tougher on older people
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 Hedges, Truthdig, Bad News From America's Top Spy
February 15, 2009
2/15/09 Gray, NYT, Experts: Nationalization Is Only Way Out
2/15/09 Pugh, McClatchy, Despite trillions for economy, next job might mean less pay
February 14, 2009
2/14/09 Schwartz, NYT, Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide
2/14/09 Heller, Reuters, G7 commits to firm crisis response and free trade
2/14/09 BBC, US Congress passes stimulus plan
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 Andrews & Dash, NYT, Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses
2/13/09 Hopkins, Charlotte Observer, Three major banks suspending foreclosures for several weeks
2/13/09 Sloan, Lexington Herald, Toyota cutting costs with lower pay, buyout programs, more
2/13/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Revolt is in the air: Countries across Europe in turmoil
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Whoriskey, WP, Employers Fighting Unemployment Benefits
2/12/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, A Readable Summary of the Stimulus / Jobs Bill
2/12/09 Zhang, AP, The Chinese are coming, to buy bargain US homes
2/12/09 Reuters, Global economy crisis top security threat: U.S.
2/12/09 Hagey, Tacoma Tribune, Over 800 applicants take test for one job in Tacoma
2/12/09 Jimenez, TAP, The Real Economics of Immigration Reform
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Search What the Senate Cuts Mean for Your School District
2/11/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Economic Stimulus: Resolution Confusion
2/11/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Nationalize the Banks
2/11/09 BBC, US lawmakers reach stimulus deal
2/11/09 Pearlstein, WP, Big Lessons in Finance From a Little Bank You've Never Heard Of
2/11/09 Freking, AP, Ranks of uninsured to grow
2/11/09 BBC, US trade deficit at six-year low
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Guiterrez & Drash, CNN, Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider U.S.
2/10/09 Grabell, ProPublica, The Stimulus Bills: House vs. Senate
2/10/09 Dossani, FPIF, Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis -- Markets, the State and Hypocrisy
2/10/09 Smith, CNN, Military recruitment surges as jobs disappear
2/10/09 Isodore, CNN, GM cutting 10,000 jobs
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, Another Frightening Recession Graph
2/09/09 CNN, Commentary: Free trade has sold out the American worker
2/09/09 BBC, Latvia's economy shrinks rapidly
2/09/09 Baltmore, Reuters, Fed's Fisher says Fed independence must be ensured
2/09/09 Bowers, OpenLeft, New Bailout Strategy: Corporatist Victory
2/09/09 Cooke, Financial Sense, The End of Wealth Creation
2/09/09 Heinrich, Calgary Herald Mafia millions buoying banks: UN
2/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Track the Stimulus (Decoder Ring Included!)
2/09/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Energy Taxes' Faustian Bargain
2/09/09 GW's Blog, WTO Chief Joins Others in Warning of Crash-Induced Unrest
2/09/09 Whitley & Adam, Bloomberg, IMF Says Advanced Economies Already in Depression
2/09/09 IntelDaily, Venezuela braces for $20 oil
2/09/09 Weber, ITT, Green Jobs for Whom?
2/09/07 Lah, CNN, Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs
2/09/09 Simon, CNN, In rural Alaska villages, families struggle to survive
2/09/09 BBC, Japan corporate bankruptcies soar
February 8, 2009
2/08/09 Solnit, TomDispatch, The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
2/08/09 Glod, WP, Schools Face Sharp Rise In Homeless Students
2/08/09 Rucker,Reuters, Fannie, Freddie to channel mortgage rescue: sources
2/08/09 USA TOday, New anticapitalist party born in France
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, 1,000 Words From Speaker Pelosi About Why This Recession Is Different
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Collins-Nelson Ax 600,000 Jobs! "In Your Face Caterpillar, Microsoft, Boeing, US Steel, Motorola!"
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 BBC, Latin America poverty 'may soar'
2/07/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Purified Kleptocracy: New Bank Bailout Plan Aims to Enrich Private Investors
2/07/09 CNN, What got cut from the stimulus bill
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Miller, PSL, Indian man set ablaze in anti-immigrant assault in Italy
2/06/09 Stiglitz, Deutche Welle, Joseph Stiglitz: Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer"
2/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "More to Promote Outsourcing Than Nearly Anyone Else In America"
2/06/09 Bagli, NYT, Sam Zell's Empire, Underwater in a Big Way
2/06/09 Muskal & Silva, LAT, Obama names outside economic experts to advisory panel
2/06/09 Sanders, ITT, The Failed Prophet
2/06/09 Reynolds, LAT, U.S. unemployment rate at 7.6%; jobs disappearing at faster pace
2/06/09 BBC, Alternative views of the economic crisis
2/06/09 Weir, CSM, Global downturn hammers Ukraine's economy
2/06/09 Reuters, Regulators Close Three More US Banks
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Costello & Seib, TimesOnline, Madoff's clients at heart of UK establishment
2/05/09 Brittain-Catlin, Guardian, How offshore capitalism ate our economies - and itself
2/05/09 Aversa, AP, Rising unemployment hits 98 percent of metro areas
2/05/09 Schneider, WP, New Jobless Claims Surge to 626,000
2/05/09 Reuters, U.S. jobless claims surge to 26-year high
2/05/09 Helms, Charlotte Observer, Poverty level in CMS rises past 50%
2/05/09 Puzanghera et al, LAT, Wall Street finds ways around executive pay caps
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 Klein, Nation, All of Them Must Go
2/04/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, Gordon Brown suggests world heading for a 'depression'
2/04/09 Younglai & Wutkowski, Reuters, Madoff whistleblower blasts SEC's shortcomings
2/04/09 Scoop, Option ARMs and Recast Shock Syndrome: Toxic Financial Products are Imploding on Schedule. Examining the Impact on California.
2/04/09 Kasler, Sac Bee, Million-dollar home sales plummet in California
2/04/09 AP, Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants
2/04/09 WorldFocus, Iceland in upheaval as banks and government implode
2/04/09 Gordon, McClatchy, For bank execs, $500,000 a year is a big comedown
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Keely, TimesOnline, Madoff victims could reach 3m, say lawyers
2/03/09 Rampell, NYT, How Common Is Tax Evasion?
2/03/09 Johnson, MoJo, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon
2/03/09 Feffer, FPIF, Our Pirates and Theirs
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Hedges, TruthDig, It's Not Going to Be OK
2/02/09 Hartmann, CommonDreams, Citigroup's Football Madness
2/02/09 Eley, IntelDaily, For top 400 Americans, combined income of $105 billion in 2006
2/02/09 BBC, France unveils stimulus package
2/02/09 BBC, Chinese spending creates deficit
2/02/09 BBC, Zimbabwe dollar sheds 12 zeros
2/02/09 Crutsinger, AP, Treasury needs to borrow $493B in current quarter
2/02/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Wall Streeters "Can't Live on $150,000 to $180,000 a Year"
2/02/09 Hogg, BBC, Chinese migrant job losses mount
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 Al Jazeera, Icelanders agree on new government
2/01/09 Faiola, WP, Out of Gaps In Treaties, First Salvos Of Trade War
2/01/09 Henley, BBC, French government fears rise of left
2/01/09 Fisher, PSL, More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France
2/01/09 Grudgings, Reuters, Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying
2/01/09 Bajaj & Labaton, NYT, Risks Are Vast in Revaluation of Assets
2/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?
2/01/09 Deparle, NYT, Welfare System Failing to Grow as Economy Lags
2/01/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Bailout Cash Subsidizing Outsourcing
2/01/09 Bash & Beamish, AP, AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers
2/01/09 Gustavo Capdevila interviews academic ALAIN BIHR, IPS, Q&A: Crisis Could Lead to 'Revolutionary Change'
2/01/09 BBC, Glaxo 'to cut thousands of jobs'
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 Fletcher, WP, 8 Questions on the Stimulus Package
1/31/09 BBC, Crisis may 'spark social unrest'
1/31/09 BBC, Thousands protest in Russian east
1/31/09 BBC, PM says 'no clear map' for crisis
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Freeland, Financial Times, The Credit Crunch According to Soros
1/30/09 Smith, CNN, Job cuts exceed 100,000 for the week
1/30/09 Barr, AP,
1/30/09 Rothschild, Progressive, Bernie Sanders Demands Investigation of Banks
1/30/09 The Creek, Wall Street Bailout Exceeds Cost of All US Wars Combined: And you can throw in the New Deal, Marshall Plan and Moon Shots as well
1/30/09 Reynolds, LAT, Economy is going from bad to worse, reports show
1/30/09 BBC, Financial rules 'worsened crisis'
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 Insley, Guardian. Capital One card holders braced for interest rate rises
1/29/09 BBC, 'Unprecedented' fall in air cargo
1/29/09 CNN, How a 'perfect storm' led to the economic crisis
1/29/09 Kiel, ProPublica, How Much of the Bailout Is Going to Small Banks?
1/29/09 Seward, AP, Nationwide French strike shuts trains, subways
1/28/09 Nation, Jobless in America
1/29/09 Reuters,
1/29/09 Mutikani, Reuters, Jobless rolls hit record peak, orders plummet
1/29/09 Healy, NYT, Orders for Factory Goods Fall for 5th Month
1/29/09 Dougherty & Bennhold, IHT, Russia and China blame capitalists for crisis
1/29/09 Lindorff, IntelDaily, The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back
1/29/09 Turse, MoJo, Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
1/29/09 Huus, MSNBC, Homelessness Surges as Funding Falters
1/29/09 McGreal, Guardian, Zimbabwe's Starving Millions Face Halving of Rations as UN Cash Dries Up
1/29/09 Wutkowski, Reuters, U.S. to unveil menu of bank fixes next week: source
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Huang, CSM, Migrant workers struggle as China's factories slow
1/28/09 Llana, CSM, Mexican workers send less cash home from the US
1/28/09 Booth, Times Online, UK economy will shrink faster than rest of the developed world, IMF predicts
1/28/09 Aversa, AP, Fed moves to help distressed homeowners
1/28/09 Devarakonda, IPS, ECONOMY: 'Privatise Profits, Socialise Losses'
1/28/09 Kollewe, Guardian, IMF: UK economy will be hardest hit in worst recession since second world war
1/28/09 Demytrie, BBC, Tajik women who buy and sell babies
1/28/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Serious Are Treasury's New TARP Lobbying Limits?
1/28/09 BBC, Global job losses 'could hit 51m'
1/28/09 BBC, World growth 'worst for 60 years'
1/28/09 Hall, McClatchy, Fed warns of deepening slump, may move on mortgage rates
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Pepitone, CNN, More than 11,500 job cuts announced Tuesday
1/27/09 Haviv, Reuters, Home prices plunge record 18.2 percent in November
1/27/09 Eley, WSWS, Bloody Monday: 74,000 layoffs announced in one day
1/27/09 Blomfield, Telegraph, Russian stability threatened by anger over economy
1/27/09 Stiglitz, CNN, Commentary: How to rescue the bank bailout
1/27/09 BBC, Canada set for stimulus spending
1/27/09 Lieber, Village Voice, What Cooked the World's Economy?
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Irwin & Applebaum, WP, Fed May Gain More Financial Oversight
1/26/09 Hong & reynolds, LAT, U.S. weighs strategies to stem home foreclosures
1/26/09 Adams, CSM, Filipina activist boosts overseas workers
1/26/09 Finch et al, Guardian, Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ...
1/26/09 Reuters, Caterpillar Moves to Cut 20,000 Jobs
1/26/09 Reuters, Sprint Nextel to cut up to 8,000 jobs
1/26/09 BBC, Caterpillar reveals huge job cuts
1/26/09 BBC, Crisis claims Icelandic cabinet
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Sanger, NYT, Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
1/25/09 CNN, Protests, resignation pressure Iceland's government
1/25/09 Oakeshoft, Times Online, Women losing jobs twice as fast as men
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Faiola, WP, Downturn Accelerates As It Circles The Globe
1/24/09 Seager & Milner, Guardian, Lights go out across Britain as recession hits home
1/24/09 Goldman, Asia Times, Fixing the bank crisis is the easy part
1/24/09 Reuters, China denounces U.S. currency accusation
1/24/09 IHT, Iceland's political scene melting
1/24/09 Graybow, Reuters, Jews struggle to come to grips with Madoff
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Gunnarson, AP, Iceland prime minister calls national elections
1/23/09 Christie, CNN, Flood of Foreclosures: It's Worse Than You Think
1/23/09 Hall & Lightman, McClatchy, Senate panel rolls out pro-business tax breaks for stimulus
1/23/09 Glover, Sacramento Bee, Jobless situation even worse than numbers show, experts say
1/23/09 BBC, Spain's jobless rate hits 13.9%
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
1/22/09 Al Jazeera, Global slump hits Asian economies
1/22/09 Applebaum, WP, By Switching Their Charters, Banks Skirt Supervision
1/15/09 (web 1/22) Grieder, Nation, The Crisis Is Global
1/22/09 Wulfhorst, Reuters, Job losses hitting men harder than women
1/22/09 Healy, NYT, Home Construction Ends Worst Year Since 1959
1/22/09 Kiel, ProPublica, Nationalization of Banks? Citi, Gov't Agreement Already Provides for Partial Takeover
1/22/09 Rugaber, AP, New jobless claims rise more than expected to 589K
1/22/09 All THings Digital, Microsoft Earnings and Revenues Take a Big Hit; 5,000 to be Laid Off (Plus the Full Press Release)
1/22/09 Ehrenreich, Nation, Foreclosure Fightback
1/22/09 BBC, Intel shedding up to 6,000 jobs
1/22/09 Nye, BBC, Citi wants further help for banks
January 21, 2009
1/21/09 Reuters, Geithner calls for TARP reform: report
1/21/09 Rau, LAT, Funding freeze halts environmental projects across California
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 Roberts, Guardian, The nuclear options (economy)
January 19, 2009
1/19/09 Alvarez, NYT, More Joining US Military as Jobs Dwindle
1/19/09 BBC, New plan to boost banks' lending
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 Story, NYT, Hedge Funds, Unhinged
1/17/09 Ahmann, Reuters, Obama team weighs government bank to ease crisis
1/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Bailed-Out Firms Have Tax Havens, GAO Finds
1/17/09 ElBoghdady & Cohen, WP, The Growing Foreclosure Crisis
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Kiel, ProPublica, BofA and Gov't's Secret Deal
1/16/09 Gilmore, Times Online, Bank shares gyrate as short-selling ban ends
1/16/09 Sheppard, Reuters, World oil demand to shrink sharply this year: IEA
1/16/09 Izumi & Massy-Beresford, Reuters, Toyota and Honda cut more output amid EU gloom
1/16/09 Michael, IPS, EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable
1/16/09 Moberg, ITT, Making the Feds Model Employers
1/16/09 Goldman et al, CNN, BofA: $20B bailout, huge Merrill loss
1/16/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Students, communities pay when schools cut busing
1/16/09 BBC, Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100tr note
1/16/09 BBC, Citigroup to split as losses grow
1/16/09 BBC, Irish bank set to be nationalised
1/16/09 Clark, Guardian, US banks reveal further heavy losses
January 15, 2009
1/15/09 Rothacker & Rexrode, Charlotte Observer, BofA may get billions in U.S. aid to finish Merrill deal
1/15/09 Comley, Reuters, JPMorgan profit slumps on writedowns
1/15/09 Andrews, NYT, Rescue of Banks Hints at Nationalization
1/15/09 MoJo, Saving Private Industry :Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years.
1/15/09 Prins, MoJo, $3.43 Trillion & Counting
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 ANdrews, ProPublica, Quick Picks: Bank Hoards Bailout Bucks
1/14/09 Reuters, Worries over Citigroup mount
1/14/09 IntelDaily, EU to nationalise North Sea oil and gas
1/14/09 Folkerth, IntelDaily, Educated, Unemployed, and Likely to Stay That Way
1/14/09 Higgs, IntelDaily, CBO Report: U.S. Will Go to Hell in 2009
January 13, 2009
1/13/09 Boodman, WP, The Rising Costs of Care And a Failing Economy Drive More Americans Into Medical Debt
1/13/09 Guerrera, Financial Times, Citigroup moves towards break-up
1/13/09 Desai, Reuters, More steps needed to stabilize banks: Bernanke
1/13/09 REuters, Treasury sees need for TARP contingency funds
January 12, 2009
1/12/09 Zandi, Progressive, How to Stimulate the Economy
1/12/09 Margolies, KC Star, U.S. mortgage meltdown linked to 2005 bankruptcy law
January 11, 2009
1/11/09 Gosselin, LAT, Audacity itself as economic experiment
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 Cho & Montgomery, WP, Bush Prepares Request for Rest Of Bailout Funds
1/10/09 Kaiser, Reuters, Economists see longest recession since World War Two
January 9, 2009
1/09/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Merrill Lynch says rich turning to gold bars for safety
1/09/09 Merle & Montgomery, WP, Citigroup Reaches Deal With Lawmakers on Home Loans
1/09/09 Hall, McClatchy, New jobs numbers suggest economy is in free fall
1/09/09 BBC, US job losses hit record in 2008
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 LAT, Continuing jobless claims rise more than expected
1/08/09 Clark, Guardian, The masters of the universe who cannot live with failure
1/08/09 Reich, Truthout, The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
1/08/09 Monaghan, Daily Telegraph, Bank of England cuts interest rates to lowest in more than 300 years
January 7, 2009
2/01/09 Gerttleman, MoJo, Conspiracy Watch: The Wisest Guys in the Room
1/07/09 Hilzenrath, WP, Stock Losses Leave Pensions Underfunded by $400 Billion
1/07/09 Frierson, Reuters, Private job losses mount in December
1/07/09 Reuters, Budget deficit seen hitting $1.2 trillion
1/07/09 Wood, BBC, Did Bush cause the financial crisis?
January 6, 2009
1/06/09 Reuters, Toyota Will Halt Output for 11 Days
1/06/09 Klas et al, Miami Herald, Budget crisis getting worse, Florida lawmakers are told
Wealth of U.S. millionaires down 30 percent: survey
1/06/09 Goldman, CNN, The $8 trillion bailout
January 5, 2009
1/05/08 Trotta, Reuters, French Madoff investor found dead in NY office
January 4, 2009
1/04/09 Gibbs, Women's ENews, After Layoffs, Couples Wrestle With Role Reversal
1/04/09 Shiri, WP, College Degree No Shield As More Jobs Are Slashed
1/04/09 Stewart, Guardian, Credit squeeze will hit poor nations
January 3, 2009
1/03/09 Lewis & Einhorn, NYT, The End of the Financial World as We Know It
1/02/09 Chang, McClatchy, Economic woes expected to worsen early this year
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Adams, CSM, China favors jobs at home over freer trade
1/02/09 Al Jazeera, Data points to further Asian woes
1/02/09 Frierson, Reuters, Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years
1/02/09 Stempel. Reuters, GM, GMAC loosen finance pact after lender bailout
January 1, 2009
1/01/09 Kavilanz, CNN, Thousands of stores to disappear in '09
1/01/09 Merle, WP, Wall Street's Final '08 Toll: $6.9 Trillion Wiped Out
1/01/09 McAlister, Guardian, Green revolution stalls on cheap oil