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thenation.com - 9/18/2008
Today in The Nation: The Smell of Fear
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William Greider The house of global finance is on fire--and the lightning bailout of AIG raises serious question about government's capacity to extinguish the flames.

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Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The End of a Gilded Age
TomDispatch — ... while the whirlwind blows and the stock market goes into heart-attack mode. Steve Fraser, an expert on Gilded Ages (and how they end), as well as the author of a superb new book on our financial "masters of the universe" from the eighteenth century to the present, ...

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