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Richard Eskow's picture

"Bain Capitalism": Mitt's Frankenstein is a Politically-Created Monster

Bain Capital must seem like a Frankenstein monster to Mitt Romney's campaign. Like Mary Shelley's creature, it's stalking its creator just as he's about to claim the thing he loves most. But Bain Capital—and Bain capitalism—isn't Mitt's creation. It was sewed together from the corpses of dead ideals and shocked into life in Washington's political laboratories.

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Zach Carter's picture

Scaling Back Our Bloated Financial Sector

It's been apparent for several weeks that the Wall Street reform bill will not cut down the largest U.S. banking behemoths to a safe and manageable size. But individual oversized banks are not the only problem Big Finance poses to the economy—the overall sector is much too large, and if we do not shrink it, we'll be dealing with difficult economic conditions for years to come. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People

At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Caught In A Machine That Grinds Us Up

This is Part II of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part I, Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs

This is Part I of Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities. See Part II, Caught In A Machine That Grinds Us Up. more »

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