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OpEdNews - Article: The Way to Occupy a Bank is to Own One

Seeded on Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:47 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Occupy Wall Street has been both criticized and applauded for not endorsing any official platform. But there are unofficial platforms, including one titled the 99% Declaration which calls for a "National General Assembly" to convene on July 4, 2012 in Philadelphia.

State jobs data calls for 'super shift' to job creation | Economic Policy Institute

Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:34 AM EST (Economic Policy Institute)

Employment and unemployment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics remind us once again that the so-called “recovery” continues to leave millions of Americans behind.

Services without Tears - Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:48 PM EST ()

A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery).

CBO: Obama stimulus helping economy - The Hill's On The Money

Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:44 AM EST (TheHill.com)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Tuesday that President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package continues to benefit the struggling economy.

U.S.-Based Multinationals Added Jobs Abroad In 2000s, But Cut Jobs At Home

Seeded on Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:22 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs. They're just not adding them in the United States.

At OpEdNews: Time for an Economic Bill of Rights

Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:34 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Henry Ford said, "It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the beginning …

The People versus the Police - Naomi Wolf - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:56 AM EDT ()

America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy.

Clinton Issues Blunt Warning to Pakistan - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:35 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Setting the stage for a high-level diplomatic showdown, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned Pakistan’s leaders on Thursday that they would face serious consequences if they continued to tolerate safe havens for extremist organizations that have cr …

Occupy the Mortgage Lenders - Simon Johnson - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:59 AM EDT ()

Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and securitization behavior that was central to the financial crisis – and to the loss of more than e …

Free Trade Or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons Why All Americans Should Be Against The Insane Trade Policies Of The Globalists

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:01 PM EDT ()

It is absolutely amazing how many Americans are still convinced that more "free trade" is the answer to our economic problems. The truth is that there is a vast difference between "free trade" and "fair trade", and in this article I will prove that all true conservatives an …

The Vanishing Arctic - Stefan Rahmstorf - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:38 AM EDT ()

Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The long-term consequences will far outstrip those of the international debt crisis or the demise of the Libyan dictatorship, the news stories now commanding media attention.

At OpEdNews: THE PUBLIC OPTION IN BANKING: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE GERMAN MODEL

Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:22 PM EDT (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Publicly-owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany's "economic miracle" after the devastation of World War II.

Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party movement?

Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:40 AM EDT (Salon.com)

When I first wrote in defense of the Occupy Wall Street protests a couple of weeks ago, I suggested that much of the scorn then being expressed by many progressives was “grounded in the belief that the only valid form of political activism is support for Democratic Party ca …

The Instability of Inequality - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:19 AM EDT ()

This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London; Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squ …

Milton Friedman's Magical Thinking - Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:25 AM EDT ()

Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s birth. Friedman was one of the twentieth century’s leading economists, a Nobel Prize winner who made notable contributions to monetary policy and consumption theory.

Plutocrats React to OWS: Krugman Calls it Panic | AlterNet

Seeded on Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:25 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

The Pundit-Elite Class is besides themselves, trying to figure out how to put this Citizen's Action genie back in its bottle ... and so they just keep doing what they do best -- lie, censor, obscure, mis-construe. And above all, shift the debate ...

The Amazon or Oil? - Eric Chivian and Rigoberta Menchú - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Fri Oct 7, 2011 11:38 AM EDT ()

Charles Darwin would appreciate the irony of Yasuní National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Ron Paul Talks About the Occupy Wall Street Protests and the "militarization of our police force" - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Seeded on Thu Oct 6, 2011 12:01 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)

On Friday, after Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) concluded a town hall-style meeting at an old folks' home in Concord, New Hampshire, I asked him what he made of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, which have included a noticeable contingency of Paul supporters.

To Cure the Economy - Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 11:16 AM EDT ()

As the economic slump that began in 2007 persists, the question on everyone’s minds is obvious: Why? Unless we have a better understanding of the causes of the crisis, we can’t implement an effective recovery strategy. And, so far, we have neither.

Holding China to Account - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 4, 2011 3:42 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players. Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn’t stop us from holding individual bad actors to account.

China warns of trade war if U.S. bill passes - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Tue Oct 4, 2011 10:27 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

An angry China warned Washington on Tuesday that passage of a bill aimed at forcing Beijing to let its currency rise could lead to a trade war between the world's top two economies. China's central bank and the ministries of commerce and foreign affairs accused Washington …

Globalization's Government - Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate

Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:37 AM EDT ()

We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local.

The poverty crisis is devastating young Americans. Here's what the president can do about it. - Slate Magazine

Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:17 PM EDT (Slate)

America excels in dramatic crises: When a bank goes bust, when a tornado strikes, there's no country in the world that rises to the occasion better.

In Trading Scandal, a Reason to Enforce the Volcker Rule - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:38 PM EDT (The New York Times)

As a draft of the Volcker Rule has made the rounds in the last several weeks, it has alternatively caused fits of despair and cries of exultation.

Financial Warfare:

Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:30 PM EDT ()

Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy’s newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive sho …

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