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Znet Article Weissman: The Beginning of the End of Too-Big-to-Fail

Znet Article, April, 01 2013 Robert Weissman
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Amidst an endless series of votes on amendments to a federal budget bill, the United States Senate voted 99-0 in favor of an amendment to end subsidies to too-big-to-fail financial institutions

Znet Article Weissman: Learning from Facebook

Znet Article, May, 26 2012 Robert Weissman
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Whether or not you're an investor, it's important to grasp the significance of what's happened with the Facebook initial public offering

Znet Article Weissman: Corporate Greed or Healthy Babies?

Znet Article, April, 11 2012 Robert Weissman
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Are we going to let the formula makers get away with dangerous marketing practices that harm babies?

Znet Article Weissman: The Summers of Our Discontent

Znet Article, March, 22 2012 Robert Weissman
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The people of the developing world deserve a lot better than Larry Summers

Znet Article Weissman: Eric Cantor's Wall Street Insider Trading Loophole

Znet Article, February, 21 2012 Robert Weissman
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Knowing that a committee chair plans to add an obscure provision to a piece of legislation could translate into major, short-term advantage on the stock markets

Znet Article Weissman: Excessive Oil Speculation: Wall Street's Tax on Us

Znet Article, June, 18 2011 Robert Weissman
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Where are the anti-tax activists?

Znet Article Weissman: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland

Znet Article, May, 14 2011 Robert Weissman
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To protect our tax dollars, we need openness and disclosure of contractors' campaign spending

Znet Article Weissman: Corporate America's War on Political Transparency

Znet Article, April, 30 2011 Robert Weissman
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Is it really a stretch to suggest that contractors think political donations help them obtain contracts

Znet Article Weissman: Here's What's Wrong With BP's Trust Fund

Znet Article, August, 27 2010 Robert Weissman
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President Barack Obama's forceful demand that BP accept liability for the damage it caused in the Gulf was a highlight of the administration's handling of the BP disaster. Yet, like virtually everything else connected with the BP catastrophe, it l...

Znet Article Weissman: Massachusetts and the Populist Imperative

Znet Article, January, 20 2010 Robert Weissman
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It takes a special skill for a Democrat to lose a federal election in Massachusetts.

Znet Article Weissman: A Little Bit of Wall Street Reform

Znet Article, December, 13 2009 Robert Weissman
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Four hundred forty-two days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, the U.S. House of Representatives has finally passed financial reform legislation.

Znet Article Weissman: GM Nationalization: The Path Not Taken, Choices Still Ahead

Znet Article, June, 07 2009 Robert Weissman
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Whatever the woes of General Motors -- and they are substantial -- it does not follow that the government needed to drive the company into bankruptcy. With at least $50 billion in government supports undergirding the new GM, the Obama administrati...

Znet Article Weissman: Bankrupt Thinking

Znet Article, June, 07 2009 Robert Weissman
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What in the world is the Obama administration thinking? The GM bankruptcy -- entirely avoidable -- seems designed to hurt every constituency it is supposed to assist.

Znet Article Weissman: No Blank Check for the IMF

Znet Article, April, 13 2009 Robert Weissman
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This month's G20 meeting ended with one overriding tangible agreement: A commitment by the rich countries to provide more than $1 trillion in assistance (mostly in the form of loans) to developing countries.

Znet Article Weissman: What if the Obama Administration Treated Detroit like Wall Street?

Znet Article, April, 11 2009 Robert Weissman
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What if the Obama administration treated the auto industry like Wall Street?

Znet Article Weissman: Auto Bailout: Ecological Sustainability Before Economic Viability

Znet Article, December, 19 2008 Robert Weissman
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The $17.4 billion in loans for GM and Chrysler is not going to be enough to rescue the industry -- but it will keep these companies going until the next administration takes office.

Znet Article Weissman: One Thriving Sector: The Business of War

Znet Article, December, 12 2008 Robert Weissman
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Across the nation, companies are lopping off hundreds of thousands of jobs, retailers are shuttering stores, and automakers are tottering on the edge of bankruptcy.

Znet Article Weissman: Mordor Brightens; Obama's Challenge -- And Ours

Znet Article, November, 05 2008 Robert Weissman
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There is an almost palpable, physical sense of relief with the confirmation that the end of the Bush era is at hand.

Znet Article Weissman: Public Ownership -- But No Public Control

Znet Article, October, 14 2008 Robert Weissman
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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."

Znet Article Weissman: Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right

Znet Article, September, 25 2008 Robert Weissman
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There's mounting talk on Capitol Hill that a Wall Street bailout will include some limits on executive compensation, as well as contradictory reports about whether a deal on controlling executive pay has already been reached.

Znet Article Weissman: Counterfeit Democracy

Znet Article, September, 15 2008 Robert Weissman
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A new draft global trade treaty may interfere with fair use of copyrighted materials, require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor all consumers' Internet communications, and undermine access to low-cost generic medicines.

Znet Article Weissman: The Commercial Games: How Commercialism is Overrunning the Olympics

Znet Article, August, 06 2008 Robert Weissman
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have been referred to as the “People’s Games,” the “High Tech Games” and the “Green Games,” but they could be more aptly described as the Commercial Games.

Znet Article Weissman: Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil

Znet Article, July, 12 2008 Robert Weissman
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Just two days after leading climate change scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Congress that he believed ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel company CEOs “should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature” for their role in delaying a seri...

Znet Article Weissman: High Flyers and Soaring Inequality

Znet Article, June, 27 2008 Robert Weissman
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Private and corporate jet sales are taking off, reflecting an increase in the extreme concentration of wealth in the United States and around the world.

Znet Article Weissman: Behind Skyrocketing Oil Prices

Znet Article, May, 30 2008 Robert Weissman
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Yesterday comes the news that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating potential manipulation of the oil trading market.

Znet Article Weissman: Pharmaceutical Payola -- Drug Marketing to Doctors

Znet Article, May, 17 2008 Robert Weissman
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Last week, a Congressional committee properly raked Big Pharma over the coals for misleading advertising of pharmaceuticals.

Znet Article Weissman: Global Poverty

Znet Article, May, 09 2008 Robert Weissman
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Earlier this week the UK was treated to the spectacle of the Business Call to Action summit, which Brown's office co-sponsored with the UN Development Program.

Znet Article Weissman: Big Pharma Digs In

Znet Article, May, 03 2008 Robert Weissman
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The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoting innovation to meet the particular needs of developing countries and ensuring that important me...

Znet Article Weissman: Medical R&D That Works for the Developing World

Znet Article, May, 02 2008 Robert Weissman
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Can the world settle on a medical research and development (R&D) system that develops medicines and other products to meet priority health needs and makes those products available on an affordable basis?

Znet Article Weissman: Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Robert Weissman
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For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market fundamentalist ideology.

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