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The Mind-Boggling Trillion Dollar Bailout: A Q&A With Finance Writer Max Wolff

Zack Exley | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Dregulation Crisis, Addiction to Debt, Bush, Deregulation Banking, Aig, Mortgage Crisis, Wall Street Bust, Deregulation Wall Street, Paulsen, Deregulation Bush, Lehman Brothers, Deregulation, US Debt, American Debt, Bush Bailout, Bush Paulsen, Wall Street, Bad Debt, Business News
Zack Exley

"We just went from Free Fall to Free Lunch. It turns out free markets are the greatest system on earth, but only when they go up. Market discipline is for low-income people and homeowners."

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When In Doubt, Yell "Fannie Mae"

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Fannie Mae, Mortgage Meltdown, Senate Republicans, Housing Crisis, Business News
David M. Abromowitz

Why do Republicans point to Fannie and Freddie when asked about the current housing crisis? Only to change the subject and point away from the inevitable outcome of pervasive underregulation.

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They deregulated finance, now they want to deregulate health care!

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Health Care, Health, Economy, Politics News
Jason Rosenbaum

The Dow Jones Industrial average lost almost 450 points yesterday, closing at 10917.51, only a few points higher than when George Bush took office in ...

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BPA: It's Not Taxpayers' Dollars That Are at Stake, But Taxpayers' Lives

Paul Raeburn | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Cans, American Plastics Council, Bush Administration, Bisphenol A, Fda, Baby Bottles, Deregulation, Bpa, Bear Stearns, Taxpayers, Politics News
Paul Raeburn

The first major epidemiological study to assess the risks of bisphenol A -- a chemical found in baby bottles, canned foods, and in 90 percent of Ameri...

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Maximizing McCain's Flip-Flop on Financial Regulation

David Sirota | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Economy, Politics News
David Sirota

For ideological progressives long fighting the good fight to resurrect the common-good regulatory agenda of the New Deal, McCain's shift reflects a broader shift in the public debate.

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Keating 5 Survivor John McCain Now Favors Regulating Same Industry He De-Regulated When Lobbied 15 Years Ago

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aig, John McCain, Fundamentals, Lehman, Lobbyists, Economy, Obama, Breaking Political News, Lehman Brothers, Deregulation, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, John Mccain Deregulation, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

All Obama-Biden have to do now is talk about the banking crisis and the change in position of former deregulation champion John McCain.

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Earth to McCain: It's a Crisis

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Merrill Lynch, Phil Gramm, Campaign '08, Economy, Lehman Brothers, Deregulation, Aig, Pornography of Power, Obama, John McCain, Citigroup, Mccain Deregulation, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising "tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, no special interest giveaways"? How dumb do they think we are?

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George Bush Becomes a Socialist

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bear Stearns, Government Bailout, Freddie Mac, Insurance, Communist, George W. Bush, Aig, Fannie Mae, Nationalizing Industries, Socialist, Health Insurance, Deregulation, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

What happened, I thought the government was unnecessary? I thought "unfettered" markets would do their magic if you just deregulated them. Why are you fettering?

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Wall St Crisis Culmination Of 28 Years Of Deregulation: Paper

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall St Deregulation, Economic Crisis Deregulation, Economic Crisis, Wall St Crisis, Deregulation, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

No one cog in the federal government's machine of financial regulation let down the country by failing to prevent the latest shakeout on Wall Street. ...

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It's Time To Re-regulate Business

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Regulatory Reform, Deregulation, U.S. Economy, Regulation, Wall Street Regulation, Auction Rate Securities, Business News
Hale

As the credit crunch plays out, one central theme is becoming very obvious: deregulation has gone way too far.

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Reagan Revolution Out Of Style, Regulation In Even With Republicans

Wall Street Journal | Bob Davis, Damian Paletta and Rebecca Smith | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Government Bailout, Freddie Mac, Reagan Revolution, Deregulation, Henry Paulson, Regulation, Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The housing and financial crisis convulsing the U.S. is powering a new wave of government regulation of business and the economy. Feder...

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The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Reagan, Phil Gramm, Bush, Economy, Deregulation, Keating Five, Pornography of Power, Reaganomics, John McCain, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Indifference to economics does not explain the prominence of Phil Gramm in the McCain campaign during the U.S. financial crisis. Indifference to the folks losing their homes is a more plausible explanation.

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Regulation is Not a Bad Word

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bear Stearns, Phil Gramm, Financial Neocons, Indymac, Deregulation, Republican, Enron, Fannie Mae, Regulation, Radical Deregulation, Freddy Mac, John McCain, Financial Radicals, Socialists, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

McCain and Gramm are financial radicals who have taken over the system. The idea of putting them back in charge is absolutely unthinkable.

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The G8: Humanitarian Failure and Making the World Safe for Corporate Power

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Economy, G8 Summit, Oil Prices, Deregulation, Imf, Food Prices, Wto, Global Warming, Business News
Robert Weissman

When the political leaders of the most powerful countries get together and issue joint statements, it may be worth looking at what these planetary stewards have in mind.

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Another Corporate Gimmick -- Arbitration

Dave Johnson | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Mediation, Tort Reform, Corporations, Courts, Arbitration, Attorneys, Corporate Power, Business News
Dave Johnson

More and more consumer-oriented contracts have clauses specifying that disputes must go to arbitration rather than our civil justice system. But 98.8% of arbitrations end in favor of the corporations.

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McCain Econ Advisor Phil Gramm: Recession Starter

Lou Dubose | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Bear Stearns, Credit Derivatives, Phil Gramm, Senator McCain, Derivatives, Deregulation, Senate Banking Committee, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, John McCain, Credit Defaults, Mortgage Crisis, Home News
Lou Dubose

Former Texas senator Phil Gramm is McCain's economic brain, and the current economic crisis is not the first one made possible by Gramm's sneaky commodity futures act of 2000.

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You and I Need to Get Ourselves Onto A Twelve-step Program...Now

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession, U.S. Economy, Henry Paulson, Deregulation, Bear Stearns, Consumer Spending, Treasury Secretary, Business News
Harry Fuller

It's time for Americans, myself, included to go on a twelve-step program. For spending.

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