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Schechter: Mourning With The Kennedys;" A Teachable Moment?
Commentary, August, 30 2009
Danny Schechter
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It's been hard for me to unplug from this weekend's telethon honoring Teddy Kennedy. First there was Friday night, at the Kennedy Library where the wake, or what was called a memorial service took place with so many recollections pumped up with mo...
Schechter: Searching For The Depression---And Finding It!
Commentary, August, 25 2009
Danny Schechter
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Last week I was telling a visiting filmmaker from overseas about the financial crisis and how it was getting worse. He looked at me askance. The market had just gone up, he said, and the White House was talking about an emerging recovery.
Schechter: Continunity Of Administrations Seems On Deck In DC
Commentary, August, 13 2009
Danny Schechter
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Do the initials C.O.G mean anything to you? That acronym stands for Continuity of Government. We heard about it back in 2001 when Dick Cheney was taken to that undisclosed location just in case the White House went up in smoke again like it did i...
Schechter: When Wall Street Is The Prolem, Is Bernanke The Answer?
Commentary, August, 02 2009
Danny Schechter
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In his recent press conference, after which President Obama would be called to task for lambasting the police in Cambridge Mass for acting "stupidly"-a comment he later withdrew-he also charged that Wall Street knew what they were doing when they...
Schechter: Can Doing What Seems to be The Right Thing Turn Out To Be The Wrong Thing?
Commentary, July, 19 2009
Danny Schechter
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Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers union is one of America's most progressive and outspoken labor leaders. I met him at a Cornell University conference that brought environmental organizations and labor unions together to fuse a forward looking...
Schechter: Are Our Markets Being Manipulated By "Rogues" Or Firms?
Commentary, July, 15 2009
Danny Schechter
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Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players. One of the issues it is concerned about is market manipulation, actions by rogue and not so rogue playe...
Schechter: It's Independence Day As We Bcome More Dependent
Commentary, July, 03 2009
Danny Schechter
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Our Declaration signed on a July 4th declared us so to be. And, dutifully, generations of Americans have believed we were and always would be. The late Michel Jackson even had us singing and thinking "We Are The World."
Schechter: Who Can We Bank On, Who Can We Trust, As Crisis Sharpens?
Commentary, June, 22 2009
Danny Schechter
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Can it possibly be true that the Congress can't walk and chew gum at the same time? This question is prompted by the announcement that financial reform is being pushed back as health care becomes the priority.
Schechter: Obama Electrifies The World: Can We Believe The Hype?
Commentary, June, 08 2009
Danny Schechter
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The President As Celebrity Conquers Europe Even Europe Moves Right
Schechter: Banksters On The War Path To Stop New Regulations
Commentary, June, 03 2009
Danny Schechter
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How Wall Street Is Fighting Back and Winning Their Fight For The Status Quo
Schechter: Barack Obama's Stress Test After 100 Days In Office
Commentary, April, 28 2009
Danny Schechter
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How would you do on a "stress test?" Even as the soundness of banks is supposedly measured-with many expected to show signs of insolvency---the whole stress idea demands a broader focus.
Schechter: New Film Tells Unreported Story Of Obama's Election
Commentary, April, 20 2009
Danny Schechter
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The election of Barack Obama may be long over but the campaign for change is still underway. For the first time in American history, a president is using the techniques he deployed in running for office in pushing for deeper change. Those who want...
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: 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...
