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Will Workers Survive State Budget Belt-Tightening?

By MATTHEW SHERMAN
CEPR
January 11th, 2009
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Issue Brief : December 2008 takes up the job losses expected without proper allocations to states in the Economic Recovery Plan. more »

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Executing the Main Street Economic Recovery Program Equitably

By Susan Ozawa
December 22, 2008

Given the male dominated nature of construction and heavy manufacturing involved in infrastructure projects Eileen Appelbaum, at the School of Management and Labor Relations and Director of the Center for Women and Work recommends that proposals pushing infrastructure investment include construction of child care centers and additional space to accommodate expanded pre-K programs. more »

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Other Economic Recovery Plans

By Susan Ozawa
December 16, 2008

Center for American Progress, How to Spend $350 Billion in a First Year of Stimulus and Recovery

The United States Conference of Mayors, MainStreet Economic Recovery Report more »

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Change.gov Discussion on the Main Street Recovery Program

By Susan Ozawa
December 15, 2008

Participate in the discussion about the Main Street Recovery Program on Change.gov.

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The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff

By Philip Davis
From seekingalpha.com
November 15th, 2009

seekingalpha.com — "Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), Total (TOT), Shell (RDS.A), Deutsche Bank (DB) and Societe Generale (SCGLY.PK) founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000. ICE is an online commodities and futures marketplace."

ICE Round trip trades "nothing more than a massive fraud, pure and simple."

Where is the SEC?

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Wall Street's Naked Swindle

From rollingstone.com
October 31st, 2009

rollingstone.com — On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the venerable investment bank Bear Stearns would lose more than half their value in nine days or less. It was madness...

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Chevron Employs Felon and Drug-Trafficker to Derail Trial

From alternet.org
October 31st, 2009

alternet.org — It appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.

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Billionaires Plundered An Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally

By Mark Ames
From smirkingchimp.com
October 25th, 2009

smirkingchimp.com — Earlier this week, a Goldman Sachs adviser made the mistake of publicly confirming what most of us already assumed: They believe that the shocking gap between their obscene wealth and the rest of America's declining incomes is actually a good thing.

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The Greatest Depression Is Coming

By Mac Slavo
From seekingalpha.com
October 23rd, 2009

seekingalpha.com — "...And, while the statistics being released are showing a slow down, this is basically a fabrication. There are thousands of people falling off of unemployment compensation each week — none of them are reflected in the official numbers. ..."

While the departed banksters who injected the financial poison and encouraged others are long gone.

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41 Charged With Widespread Mortgage Fraud

From nytimes.com
October 16th, 2009

nytimes.com — So it goes....

“The fraud schemes alleged in the cases unsealed today reflect a veritable smorgasbord of scams,” Mr. Bharara said during a news conference in Lower Manhattan. “Whether the economy was going up or the economy was going down, these alleged fraudsters were working feverishly to game the system.”

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