Economics
Underwater on Your Mortgage? HARPs for the Drowning
BY NORAH BOOTH, Occupied Tucson Citizen This is the full and updated version of an article that first appeared in abridged form in the August 2, 2012 edition of the Tucson Weekly—Ed Over the last ...
Study Like Chomsky!
FROM CORRESPONDENCE WITH NOAM CHOMSKY You have often made reference to Adam Smith’s advice to a young United States to focus on its advantage in exporting raw materials, and to the historical US policy to ...
Bank Protests Are Back
BY ALICE WHITTENBURG Despite the heat of late July afternoons, demonstrators from Occupy Tucson have been targetting Chase Bank in curbside rush-hour protests that remind hundreds of motorists about Chase’s continued risky financial activities. On ...
Africa and the War Against Offshore Finance
PAUL JAY INTERVIEWS LÉONCE NDIKUMANA To reduce poverty, Africa needs to demand financial transparency as big banks collude with local corruption.
The Man Who Invented “Too Big to Fail” Banks Finally Recants. Will Obama or Romney Follow?
BY ROBERT REICH I’m in Alaska, amid moose and bear, trying to steal some time away from the absurdities of American politics and economics. But even at this remote distance I caught wind of Sanford ...
The True Job Creators are Middle Class Consumers
BY NICK HANAUER Nick Hanauer’s TED talk on inequality was widely reported as being banned from publication, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it may have suspiciously been overlooked because its ...
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