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There's Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Scheer

Game over, Wall Street has won big-time, and the Bush-Obama policy has made the financiers whole while largely ignoring the deep plight of the true victims of the economic collapse, the unemployed and the foreclosed.

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Demonizing Dean Won't Absolve This Health Care Sham

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Scheer

Dean deserves much better from the left than what he got after calling for the health reform bill to be killed. His concerns as a physician and a progressive politician are worthy of serious attention.

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Obama's Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Scheer

According to Summers and Geithner, the Obama plan to be revealed today promises that all derivatives dealers will be "subject to supervision, and regulators will be empowered to enforce rules against manipulation and abuse."

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A Republican to Save Us

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Scheer

You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.

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Reagan Didn't Do It

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Scheer

Ronald Reagan's signing off on legislation easing mortgage requirements back in 1982 pales in comparison to the damage wrought 15 years later.

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Thievery Under the TARP

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new scathing report by the Treasury Department's special inspector general claims that the aptly named Troubled Asset Relief Fund bailout program is rife with mismanagement and potential for fraud.

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No Tough Love for Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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For all the brave talk about transparency and accountability Geithner gave the swindlers who got us into this mess yet another blank check to buy up the "toxic assets" they gleefully created.

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Running for War President at Any Cost

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain needs a new Cold War. He can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, the consequence of the deregulation mania that he supports.

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