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Schechter: Needed: A New Commission To Probe Corporate Crime
Znet Article, April, 11 2009
Danny Schechter
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This time it's the Millennium Bank in the Eastern Caribbean accused of a mere $65 million dollar rip off. (Ponzi king Bernard Maddoff allegedly took in $65 billion.) Regulators say there is a "ponzimonium" underway with scores of newly opened inve...
Schechter: After The Summit: What Was Accomplished & For How Long?
Commentary, April, 04 2009
Danny Schechter
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The eyes of the world have been on the Economic Summit in London but the ideas of the world were mostly conspicuous by their absence. Here we have a global crisis. The house is on fire. Unemployment is climbing. The real estate contagion is now cl...
Schechter: Pitchforks And Protests: The Fury Down Below
Commentary, April, 01 2009
Danny Schechter
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Will Public Anger With The Ongoing Rip-off Have An Impact?
Schechter: Is The Hunter Being Captured By The Game?
Commentary, March, 21 2009
Danny Schechter
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Some things don't change. Obama may be in the White House, shuffling between the safety of the center and the language of change ("changeguage?"), firm in his commitment to the doctrine of neo-prog pragmatism which all too often requires the aband...
Schechter: The Financial Crisis Slams Into Europe
Znet Article, March, 13 2009
Danny Schechter
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Obsessed as we are about our own crumbling economy, it's hard for most Americans to see and appreciate the global nature of the crisis and how it is impacting and will impact others throughout the world. We don't recognize how many in other countr...
Schechter: Who Will Rescue Us As Our Economy Stays In Free Fall?
Commentary, March, 04 2009
Danny Schechter
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No One Seems To Know Or Be Willing To Say How Bad Things Are
Schechter: Obama: Learn From Lincoln And Do The Right Thing
Commentary, February, 22 2009
Danny Schechter
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Last week, television was filled with programs marking Abraham Lincoln's birthday. (The official holiday is February 16.) We watched reports on how the civil war erupted and was almost lost by the Union side. We were reminded of how many died and ...
Schechter: Will The Recovery Plan Lead To The Stimulation We Need?
Commentary, February, 08 2009
Danny Schechter
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It is time for a euphoria check or maybe a check on euphoria, a time to start raising our own questions about government plans rather than reflexively rallying behind the Democrats just because the Republicans are so obstinate and revolting.
Schechter: In The Week Of The Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?
Commentary, February, 01 2009
Danny Schechter
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In the old days, circuses were known for three rings and a side show. The economic debate that got underway this week feels a bit like that. It began in earnest just as police in Los Angeles announced the dramatic killing of five members of a fami...
Schechter: The Obamathon Has Begun: How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?
Commentary, January, 24 2009
Danny Schechter
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Every President has a honeymoon but Barack Obama's won't last long, probably because the real world won't give him a pass. The markets showed their lack of sentimentality by dropping sharply on inauguration day. The Repubs are looking to knock off...
Schechter: What Is The King-Obama Lineage? Waiting for Barack
Commentary, January, 18 2009
Danny Schechter
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Can The Breach Between Jesse Jackson And Barack Obama Be Healed?
Schechter: The Reckoning, Barack Obama: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Commentary, November, 09 2008
Danny Schechter
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After Barack Obama’s inspirational address to the adoring minions in Sweet Home Chicago, the loudspeakers erupted with Bruce Springsteen’s prayerful post-911 anthem, “The Rising.”
Schechter: The Blame Game: Who Do We Blame For The Crisis
Commentary, November, 03 2008
Danny Schechter
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The election will determine our next president. It will not solve our biggest problem. And we still don't know who is responsible for the economic calamity that is or soon will impact all our lives.
Schechter: The Edge Of The Abyss: As Economic War Threatens
Commentary, October, 26 2008
Danny Schechter
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The other day as I was out promoting my book Plunder with a talk at a New York bookstore on the day the market dropped precipitously. It was a day that I led my blog with a quote from financial analyst fearing we are on the edge of the abyss.
Schechter: The Bush Bullydozer Strategy To Preempt His Successor
Commentary, October, 08 2008
Danny Schechter
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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...
Schechter: Bailout Debate
Commentary, October, 04 2008
Danny Schechter
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The Queston That Should Be At The Heart Of The Bailout Debate: Will The Paulson Plan Work Or Potentially Make Things Worse?
Schechter: Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save The System?
Commentary, September, 26 2008
Danny Schechter
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Many know and the rest of us are just finding out that in this turbulent month of September, the US is experiencing a financial 9/11, probably worse than the one in 2001, as a series of cataclysmic developments rock our economic system which is, i...
Schechter: As Lehman Faces Liquidation, Another One Bites The Dust
Commentary, September, 15 2008
Danny Schechter
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Who Will Protect Us From Plunge Protection? Congress and The Press Must Probe This Secret “Working Group.”
Schechter: Behind The Costly Fannie/Freddie Mortgage Bailout: A Silent Dependence On Foreign Money, Not Just Oil
Commentary, September, 09 2008
Danny Schechter
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are thrilled that even as we pay more for your oil, you pay out more and more for loans and investments in the US from your sovereign wealth funds, banks and investment portfolios.
Schechter: Won't Be Politically High In The Mile-High City
Commentary, September, 07 2008
Danny Schechter
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New York: The first convention I remember was way back in l952. I was at a summer colony, and I watched it on a black and white TV in the company of fellow day camper, Jeff Greenfield. It was the year of "I LIKE IKE," and I was not really clued in...
