Friday, March 20, 2009

More economic issues



Barack Does Burbank: Tells Leno he was stunned by bonuses...
*Seeks to Lower Expectations...
Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'...


THE TAX WEAPON

Stock rally fades as investors assess Fed moves...

CITI spending millions on headquarter renovation...


BAILOUT MESS: BANK PAYS CONSUMERS TO SEE DREAMWORKS CARTOON; BONUS FOR 3-D...



London police fear violent protests at G-20 economic meet...
Oil Nears $52; Hits high for 2009...
UN seeks tax on oil to create $750 billion 'Green New Deal'...

Panel says world should ditch the dollar...

World economy to shrink 'for first time in 60 yrs'...

UPDATE: Dodd Admits Adding Bonus Provision to Stimulus Package...

...blames Obama Admin for Change to Amendment...

SUPER PUMP: $1 TRILLION CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR...
FEDEX plans more cost cuts as it posts 75% drop in profit...

The "Card Check" Hullabaloo

By Mike Whitney

Big business has launched a no-holds-barred propaganda blitz against the Employee Free Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into believing that if the bill passes it will trigger higher unemployment and a deeper recession. According to opponents, there's even the threat of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice Act or so called "card check" simply makes it easier for unions to organize. Continue


Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?

By Paul Craig Roberts

After Washington’s trillion dollar bank bailouts and trillion dollar gratuitous wars for the sake of the military industry’s profits and Israeli territorial expansion, there is no money for Social Security and Medicare. Continue


Restoring our Financial Sovereignty

A New Monetary System

By Nikki Alexander

Today the nation is essentially bankrupt and hoping Barack Obama’s team of Wall Street advisors will forestall economic collapse. This expectation is equivalent to hoping that Al Capone will make our streets safe. Obama’s economic recovery team is a Trojan horse filled with the same Wall Street racketeers that infected the global economy with a quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble, using deliberately deregulated mechanisms. Continue

U.S. Stocks, Dollar Down, Commodities Race Higher

Oil Prices Hit New 2009 High As Dollar Falls

Britain's Budget Deficit Hit New Record

Bank Chiefs Buy Only £1,500 Shares Since Sept

Why Tax Havens, Bank Crisis Are Linked

France Braced For Huge Street Protests

Sarkozy Warned Of Class War

Federal Reserve Plan Stuns Investors

Fed Now In High-Risk Inflation Game

Fannie Mae Chiefs In Line For HUGE Bonuses

AIG Will Not Exist In Four Years

Obama Moves To Take AIG Heat Off Geithner

Madoff's Accountant Faces Fraud Charges

China's Thumbs Down To Coke Worrying

Hang The Bastards

'Stimulus, A Debtors Lament' By FloWhite - Vid

Gold Rises 4% On Fed Announcement


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