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Greider: How to Launch a Mass Movement for Economic Justice
Znet Article, August, 14 2012
William Greider
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The ultimate goal is long-term and larger than Obama: reviving small-d democracy and rebuilding the left by helping ordinary people regain their power as citizens
Greider: Europe's Last Great Chance
Znet Article, June, 19 2012
William Greider
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Europeans may in fact be on the brink of achieving great change
Greider: The End of New Deal Liberalism
Znet Article, January, 10 2011
William Greider
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We have reached a pivotal moment in government and politics, and it feels like the last, groaning spasms of New Deal liberalism.
Greider: With the World Economy on the Brink, America Must Start Producing for Itself Again
Znet Article, November, 13 2010
William Greider
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The world economy is on the brink again, facing a crisis of epic dimensions for reasons largely obscured by the inflamed politics of 2010.
Greider: The End of Free-Trade Globalization
Znet Article, November, 07 2010
William Greider
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Another leading indicator for potential change is that a few influential industry leaders are deviating from the standard corporate line.
Greider: Labor to Harvard: Which Side Are You On?
Znet Article, April, 14 2010
William Greider
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Rich Trumka, the new president of the AFL-CIO, obliquely posed this cheeky question for the professors and students gathered last week at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The academy, Trumka warned, should make common cause with the justifi...
Greider: Political Fever
Znet Article, February, 03 2010
William Greider
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When citizens shake off their resignation and rebel against the political elites, Washington reacts as if a dread new disease has risen from the swamp of public opinion. Spin doctors are on the case, prescribing various "cures" to inoculate the go...
Greider: Coakley's Loss: Pie in the President's Face
Znet Article, January, 22 2010
William Greider
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Barack Obama went to Boston to rally voters and got a pie in the face. He lost his innocence as the valiant young president and also lost his sixty-vote majority in the Senate. Now we will find out what the man is made of--either a true political ...
Greider: Conservative Mogul Buying Up Reporters to Promote His Regressive Agenda
Znet Article, January, 08 2010
William Greider
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He's baaack -- the Wall Street billionaire who wants to loot Social Security. This time, Pete Peterson has invented his own "news network" to promote his right-wing rants about shrinking the only retirement security system available to millions of...
Greider: Obama's Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Znet Article, May, 11 2009
William Greider
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Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Greider: Testicular Politics: Obama Is Getting Punked By the Big Dogs of Banking, Does He Have the Balls to Do What's Right?
Znet Article, April, 25 2009
William Greider
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What we are witnessing is a high-stakes melodrama of glandular politics. Will Obama roll over or fight back?
Greider: Fixing the Beast: The Fed Has to be Transformed for a Healthy Financial System
Znet Article, March, 13 2009
William Greider
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To restore the nation's broken financial system, Washington must reform the Federal Reserve.
Greider: Obama Will Fight with Us to Quash the Campaign to Loot Social Security -- Right?
Znet Article, February, 15 2009
William Greider
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Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street have devised a fiendishly clever "grand bargain" they want President Obama to embrace in the name of "fiscal responsibility." The government, they argue, having spent billions on bailing out the banks...
Greider: Economic Stimulus Moves to Senate Following House Approval
Znet Article, January, 29 2009
William Greider
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The House has passed an $819 billion stimulus package, marking one of the most expensive pieces of legislation ever to move through Congress. Not a single Republican voted for the bill. Democracy Now speaks with William Greider, national affairs c...
Greider: The Crisis Is Global
Znet Article, January, 26 2009
William Greider
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The nation's fast-darkening circumstances define the essential dilemma of Barack Obama's presidency. His instinct is to govern by consensus, in the moderate middle ground of politics. Yet dire events are pushing the new president toward solutions ...
Greider: The Dirty Secret of the Financial Crisis: Our Banking System's Broken
Znet Article, November, 22 2008
William Greider
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Henry Paulson's $700 billion plan to save the world is dead or dying, but the bailout was not killed by his arrogance or his grossly misleading claims about what the public's money would buy. The plan collapsed because it didn't work. The Treasury...
Greider: Paulson's Swindle Revealed
Znet Article, November, 02 2008
William Greider
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The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including ...
Greider: Dr. Paulson's Magic Potion Is Pure Poison for Us
Znet Article, October, 20 2008
William Greider
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American capitalism is having a nervous breakdown, losing confidence and acting out in self-destructive ways. Let's try talk therapy. No, wait, it's more serious -- a case for high-powered drugs. No response? Maybe high finance has a brain tumor. ...
Greider: Born-Again Democracy
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
William Greider
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Our country is at a rare and dangerous juncture. The old order is crumbling, and virtually all the centers of power that govern us have been discredited by events. The president is irrelevant, weak and unbelievable, even to his own party. The Demo...
Greider: Goldman Sachs Socialism
Znet Article, September, 24 2008
William Greider
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Wall Street put a gun to the head of the politicians and said, Give us the money--right now--or take the blame for whatever follows. The audacity of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout proposal is reflected in what it refuses to say: no exp...
Greider: The Scent of Fear
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
William Greider
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For the first time in this unfolding financial crisis, I felt personally scared by the news. Not about my money, but about the potential for catastrophe. The Federal Reserve's lightning rescue of AIG has the smell of systemic fear. The house of gl...
Greider: Economic Free Fall?
Znet Article, August, 04 2008
William Greider
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Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the prospect of their historic implosion. Congress quickly agreed to enact a garga...
Greider: Crime in the Suites
Znet Article, February, 04 2002
William Greider
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The collapse of Enron has swiftly morphed into a go-to-jail financial scandal, laden with the heavy breathing of political fixers, but Enron makes visible a more profound scandal--the failure of market orthodoxy itself. Enron, accompanied by a sup...
