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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
DA NILE - MANY TUNING OUT THE ECONOMIC SQUEEZE
By Danny Schechter
New York, August 4: We have all heard the line, ‘DA NILE is not just a river in Egypt.’ Denial can be a pervasive social and political phenomenon. Some of us just don’t want to know the truth or face its consequences. Maybe that’s why we envelop ourselves in national myths to survive. […]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
B.I.S WARNS OF A GLOBAL GREAT DEPRESSION - AGAIN!
Central bank body warns of Great Depression
(08/09)The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organisation that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s.
In its latest quarterly report, the body points out that the Great Depression of the […]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
NEEDED: A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC REFORM
By Danny Schechter.
Where Are Progressive Voices On The Economic Crisis Wrecking America?
Boston, MA: The media reform conference was just 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.”
The number of unemployed people grew by 861,000 in May […]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
DEBT AS A TOOL FOR CONTROL
Debt is control only when it is collectible. If the debtor has the legal or other means to resist “repayment”, debt is meaningless.
I’ve been thinking of this story for quite some time. I wanted it to reflect on my stance and pursuit to help Humanity at my own level. Bad economics being a great source […]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
THE FRAUDS MARCHE ON
Oh what a tangled web of deception… This time, you will not believe what you read - alas it is all true!
Bernanke lunched with Wall Street before Bear rescue, a Bloomberg.com headline says.
… The luncheon at the New York Fed gave Bernanke a chance to hear from chiefs of some of the biggest U.S. financial […]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
INVESTIGATING WALL STREET CRIME
By Danny Schechter:
The Question: As The Feds Broaden A Mortgage Fraud Probe, Will The White Collar Perps Of Subprime Crime Ever Do Time?
New York, May 6: There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine—repeating the same message over and […]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
THE POISON SPREADS
While there plenty of bad news gathering momentum out there, the most frightening picture is without a doubt The Ticking Credit Card Time Bomb:
For those holding out hope that the American economy can miraculously avoid a long and deep recession consumer credit is often viewed as the wonder drug that can cure all manner of […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
WHY THE NUMBERS ARE WRONG
By Danny Schechter
The official headline for U.S. Q1 GDP growth says a
positive 0.6% growth but the details are ugly and
confirm that we are in a recession.
First of all, if you exclude the increase of inventory
of unsold goods (that moved positive after a negative
figure in Q4) the Final Sales of Domestic Product were
a negative 0.2%. In […]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
25 YEARS OF DEEP RECESSION?
Yes, you read well… and if we’re lucky “deep recession” is a mild terminology. The worse case scenario is the “D” word - like depression.
Whie this is true that we do not have to become paranoid every time somebody is ‘crying wolf’, this time we’d take it very seriously because the fundamentals say so.
Let’s […]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
150 BANK FAILURES PREDICTED
Major headlines today and simply shocking.
Some US banks face failure as credit problems mount-RBC
Mon Apr 7, 2008 (Reuters) - During the next two to three years, U.S. bank failures will likely increase dramatically from the low levels recorded from 2004 to 2007, as credit problems mount for the industry, a RBC Capital Markets analyst […]
