progressive.org — Too late we are learning that reliance on the free market can be very costly. While there is an understandable urge to get back at the CEOs who profited immensely, we would be better off to lay the blame on the free market itself and move to correct the underlying problem.
sojo.net — After three decades of “concentrate the wealth,” we could really use some “spreading the wealth.” But the conversation about “spreading the wealth” goes to the heart of several ethical questions: What kind of society are we becoming? How much inequality can we handle? And have we completely forgotten the lessons of the last 70 years?
alternet.org — Markets are volatile and trending down while banks are still not lending despite frequent projections of massive unemployment and stagflation.
Over the last 40 decades, conservatives have launched a concerted attack on taxes with such success that now candidates of both parties reliably compete with each other to prove who is more anti-tax. When John McCain and Sarah Palin attack taxes, that’s one thing. But when Barack Obama starts doing it, we have a big problem. more »
"Even the rope we're using to hang ourselves is made in China," says one of the ads in our series calling for "a debate worthy of a great nation in crisis." Here are some facts and perspectives that need to be considered in the debate over trade and globalization. more »
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Economists and politicians debate whether or not we’re technically in a recession, but most Americans feel we’ve been in a recession for years. 
