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Michael Hudson: The Oligarchs' Escape Plan
Inside the New Print Edition of Our Subscriber-Only Newsletter! How the Press Gave Madoff Four More Years to Steal His Billions It s one of the greatest and most shameful failures in the history of journalism. In the new edition of our newsletter Eamonn Fingleton traces how the Wall Street ...
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talkingpointsmemo.com — Simon Johnson, an econ professor at MIT and former IMF economist, started blogging recently at TPMCafe. And... David Kurtz interviewed him in today's episode of TPMtv. The argument Johnson makes is one that's been tossed about in a loose aphoristic way ... (more) The Oligarchs
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Fucking Raping You to Death: The Real Fun Begins
Once Upon a Time... — ... Now, we get to serious payback time for the ruling class. You don't know what real pain is yet. It's almost certain we'll all find out very, very soon. Michael Hudson: ...

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