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Review: The Billionaire's Apprentice and the Gaming of Wall Street
Anita Raghavan has written a tour-de-force book that captures the realities of race and unfettered greed in contemporary America.
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The Republican Death-Trap: Taxing Students Instead of Polluters
As student loan interest rates double, Republicans are signing a pledge – sponsored by the multi-billionaire Koch brothers — to oppose any climate-change legislation that might raise government revenues by taxing polluters.
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Rushton: Poverty in Britain
In Britain, austerity is vastly increasing poverty while the rich are getting richer.
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Egypt celebrates as transition takes shape
Black, White and Red flags overran the scene all across Egypt on Wednesday evening as the country celebrated its “second revolution” with the ousting of embattled President Mohamed Morsi after mass street demonstrations saw the military intervene to bring about a transitional period.
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California's Fracking Gone Wrong, Part 3: In Monterrey, Residents Are Resisting
For Riley Jacobsen, who lives over the Monterrey shale deposit, fracking is personal.
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Depositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
E.U. ministers recently agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors. What might this mean if it happened in America as well?
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The Crime of Alleviating Poverty: A Community Currency Battles the Central Bank of Kenya
A new community currency called Bangla-Pesa, which was started in one of Kenya's poorest slums to help reduce poverty, has run up against fierce government resistance.
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Global Power Project, Part 4: Banking on Influence with JPMorgan Chase
In the midst of the financial crisis in 2008, JPMorgan Chase became not only a major criminal, but also a prime beneficiary of people's suffering.
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Investigation: Tar Sands, ALEC and the Obstruction of Low-Carbon Fuel Standards
The American Legislative Exchange Council recently adopted a “model” bill from an oil-industry lobby group that would limit states' ability to negotiate “low-carbon fuel standards” designed to reduce the carbon output of transport fuels.
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In Week of Major Supreme Court Rulings, Remember: Most of Our Justices Are Millionaires
At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.