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Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury
truthdig.com - 9/23/2008
Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury
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The lobbyists and corporate lawyers, the heads of financial firms and the crooks who control Wall Street, all those who spent the last three decades assuring us that government was part of the problem and should get out of the way, are now busy looting the U.S. treasury. They are also ...

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Opportunity "Jacked"
The Republic of T. — ... “jacked.” jacked To get robbed, mugged, rolled or beaten up by someone. The proper term, then, may not be “opportunity cost” but “opportunity jacked.” People far more knowledgeable than I am on economic matters — including Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, Robert H. Dugger, William Grieder, Robert Kuttner, Dean Baker, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Chris Hedges, Bernie Sanders, and Jared Bernstein — have offered suggestions on ...

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