Does Anybody Else Think Getting America Shopping Again is Crazy Talk?

Dave Lindorff I was listening to Robert Reich, once the left end of the spectrum in the Clinton cabinet, talking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer a few...

Is this 1930 all over again?

Before moving on to the main topic allow me to point out that Timmy Geitner (our new Treasury Secretary) wasted no time getting up to...

Ship of Fools

Paul Craig Roberts

Is there intelligent life in Washington, D.C.? Not a speck of it.

Musings on Depressions Past And Future, Protests Hit Banker’s Homes

HISTORY LESSON: How Popular Anger Grew, 1929 and 2009 By Steve Fraser

Obtuse hardly does justice to the social stupidity of our late, unlamented...

A Bankrupt and Discredited Country

The Era of American Leadership Is Over By Paul Craig Roberts February 02, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- -Vast numbers of people in the United States and...

Bailout Cost More Than All U.S Wars And Social Programs Combined

New Study Puts Bailouts in Historical Perspective Hat tip, Rock Creek Free Press

Change You May Believe In, But Won’t Get

James Petras Information Clearing House

“I have a vision of Americans in their 80’s being wheeled to their offices and factories having lost their legs in...

The Year was 2009 — or is it 1932?

Danny Schechter The period between the end of the Bush disaster and the beginning of the Obama ascendancy...

Most Economists Understand Neither The Cause of Nor The Solution To The Financial Crisis

George Washington's blog As many writers have tried to point out, mainstream economists understand neither the cause of nor the solution to the financial crisis. As...

Ancient Root of All Evil Bears Fruit With Fed

Andrew Carrington Hitchcock Economists continually try and sell the public the idea that recessions or depressions are a natural part of what they call the "business...