susiemadrak.com - 3/30/2009
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Thomas Ferguson, contributing editor at The Nation and a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is also the author of Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems , interviewed by Jay Rosen. (via BeaulahMan ...
online.wsj.com - 3/24/2009
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online.wsj.com —
The Obama administration, after months of criticizing Wall
Street, has been scrambling to woo top bankers and...
financiers to back its latest bailout plan.
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Obama Dials Down Wall Street Criticism
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/25/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Yes, that was an actual sentence spoken --
or more specifically "groused" -- by an anonymous Wall...
Street executive concerned for his "personal safety," though not enough to be dissuaded from attending or talking to a reporter at yesterday's Wall ...
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Wall Street To Washington: "I Want My Campaign ...
commentsfromleftfield.com - 3/31/2009
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commentsfromleftfield.com —
Despite the eagerness among conservative bloggers and media
pundits to make Pres. Obama responsible for the fact...
that the economic downturn has not righted itself in the two months since he took office, Americans in general are more inclined to ...
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Americans Fault Bush and Wall Street for Economy, Not Obama
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Early bankster money is like a yeast infection
Corrente —
Pure gold from the Real News Network; go read Susie for a partial transcript.
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The Sideshow —
... on how "the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation decided to shift its holdings from bonds to equities, just about the time the bottom fell out of the stock market," and Dan Froomkin on how torture doesn't work, even for Dick and George and their friends. Lance Mannion really doesn't like New Deal revisionism. This Week In Tyranny, the Republicans are still creeps, the banksters are still creeps, and we still have a conservative president. "I did a study of the early money, and it was perfectly obvious that Obama was the candidate of ...
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