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Market Meltdown

Voices Struggling to Be Heard: Access to Information and the World Bank

Chad Dobson | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: G20 Summit, Economy, Multilateral Development Banks, g20-London, World Bank, Imf, Market Meltdown, Structural Adjustment Loans, Gordon Brown, Egypt, Bretton Woods System, Financial Crisis, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, Freedom of Information, Ifi, Business News
Chad Dobson

An improved disclosure policy requires a shift in thinking and a new business approach from the World Bank.

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Is Wall Street Still America?

Mark Miller | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Portfolio, 401(K), Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Saving for Retirement, Cnbc, Rick Santelli, Market Meltdown, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Jon-Stewart-Jim-Cramer, Jon Stewart Jim Cramer, Jim Cramer, Business News
Mark Miller

Wall Street uber-ranter Jim Cramer wants America to keep listening to what Wall Street says, but no one is in the mood right now.

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How to Save the Global Financial System

Diane Francis | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Property Crisis, Sec, World Trade Organization, Wall Street Crisis, Global Economy, Stock Exchanges, World War I, Stock Market, Housing Markets, U.S. Real Estate, Market Meltdown, World War II, Business, Housing Crisis, Economy, Federal Reserve, Recession, Lehman Brothers, Henry Paulson, Personal Finance, Business News
Diane Francis

This crisis is not about the failure of capitalism, globalisation or free enterprise. It is about the fact that there are two economies: the financial economy and the "real" economy.

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Why the Financial Meltdown Reflects the Fundamental Failure of the Bush-McCain Economic Philosophy

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Presidential Election, Obama, Mccain, Economic Policy, Market Meltdown, Lehman Brothers, Economy, U.S. Economy, Phil Gramm, John McCain, Tragedy of the Commons, McCain Economy, Fannie Mae, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Merrill Lynch, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The American mortgage market now provides us with another clear example of how the fundamental premise of right-wing economic thought is dead wrong.

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Wall Street's Woes Are Our Call to Action

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Credit Crisis, Obama, Market Meltdown, Progressve Movements, Stock Market Crash, Stock Market, Oil Prices, Business News
Danny Schechter

The media reform conference was starting in Minneapolis when word bounded in from New York that the market dropped 394 points as oil prices rose, and, to borrow an Iraq war word, unemployment "surged."

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