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Dominick: Strategy for a New Society
Znet Article, October, 16 2008
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
I live chat on strategy for a new society with Brian Dominick...
Monbiot: This Is What Denial Does
Commentary, October, 16 2008
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause.
Solomon: Requiem for the Bailout Storyline
Commentary, October, 15 2008
Norman Solomon
Solomon's ZSpace page
Only weeks ago, the media hype behind the $700 billion bailout was so intense that it sometimes verged on hysteria. More recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country...
Podur: The financial economy and the real economy
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Writers on financial or economic matters rarely see the need to explain the basics of the field or justify them at the best of times, let alone in the middle of unfolding crises. What are these 'financial instruments' – futures, options, and swap...
Bond: The financial meltdown: Roots of the economic crisis in overaccumulation, financialisation and ‘global apartheid’
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has increased the leading powerbrokers’ capacity to devalue large parts of the Third World (including major emerging market sites), ...
Baker: The Return of Great Depression Economics
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
To help sell his bailout package last month, President Bush raised the specter of the Great Depression. This was sleazy politics...
Weissman: Public Ownership -- But No Public Control
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
It is an extraordinary time. On Friday, the Washington Post ran a front-page story titled, "The End of American Capitalism?" Today, the banner headline is, "U.S. Forces Nine Major Banks to Accept Partial Nationalization."
Mcgehee: Why Free Market Ideologues Violate Their Faith: “To preserve it”
Blog Post, October, 14 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
You cannot “preserve” that which does not exist.
Danforth: Il Parabrezza (The Windshield) Post 4
Blog Post, October, 13 2008
David Danforth
Danforth's ZSpace page
A layover in Houston. Two beggars. A fruitless run.
Chomsky: The Financial Crisis of 2008
Znet Article, October, 12 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The basis for the crisis is predictable and it was in fact predicted. It is built into financial liberalization that there will be frequent and deep crises. In fact, since financial liberalization was instituted about thirty five years ago, there ...
Chomsky: Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The simultaneous unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems starkly reveal their nature.
Early: EFCA, The Economy, Obama and Labor?
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
Thirty years ago, unions came closer to strengthening the Wagner Act than at any other time since Congress enacted labor’s “Magna Carta” in 1935...
Collins: American Socerers
Blog Post, October, 11 2008
Boyd Collins
Collins's ZSpace page
An analysis of the current financial crisis and a prediction of the victory of the American worker.
Weisbrot: Wall Street Bailout Won't Do Much to Help Ailing Economy
Znet Article, October, 10 2008
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
It is now clear the approval by Congress of President Bush's $700 bailout package on Friday October 3rd has done nothing to ease the current financial crisis. Credit markets have worsened for several days after the bill passed the Congress. The st...
Baker: Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus
Znet Article, October, 10 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The current economic crisis is the result of an extraordinary period of extreme economic mismanagement. The world's central banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve Board in the United States, made the decision to ignore, if not actively cultiv...
Wilson: Farm Prices Crashing Down
Blog Post, October, 10 2008
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
Corn and soybean prices are crashing, returning the U.S. toward dumping, exporting at below cost.
Kagarlitsky: Prepare for a bumpy ride
Commentary, October, 10 2008
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
When some analysts began discussing an upcoming drop in real estate prices last spring, most economists reacted with open contempt. "How can you speak of a drop when prices are climbing daily?" they asked. In the past six weeks, however, circumsta...
George: Transforming the Global Economy: Solutions for a Sustainable World
Znet Article, October, 09 2008
Susan George
George's ZSpace page
In all the countries where 90 percent of the world’s population lives, inequalities have increased especially since the 1980s. At this point in the argument, the neo-liberals usually jump in to remind us that rising tides lifting all boats.
Bello: Primer on Wall Street Meltdown
Znet Article, October, 09 2008
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector. It stems from the crisis of overproduction that has plagued global capitalism since the mid-seventies, argues Walden Bello.
Schechter: The Bush Bullydozer Strategy To Preempt His Successor
Commentary, October, 08 2008
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
One of the tactics of high pressure selling is to set a deadline, and make it clear if you don't chose the offer by the date set, you lose it. The strategy fuels a sense of urgency to get buyers to make decisions without seeking advice or doing to...
