Analysis
Save Main Street not Wall Street!
September 26, 2008The Bush administration has proposed a massive bailout plan of at least $700 billion (maybe as much as $1.7 trillion) to stabilize the financial system amid the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Treasury Secretary...
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LETTERS: September 23
September 26, 2008Wrong? In your introduction to your online “A complete guide to the Wall Street crisis” you say: “The week of September 15, 2008 has been a dramatic and unprecedented period in the world of high finance....
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OPINION: Ramming through the bailout
September 24, 2008Bush, Paulson make Dillinger look like a Boy Scout As the Bush administration attempts to ram a bailout package of nearly one trillion dollars through Congress, it begins to feel like Colonel Sanders asking the public...
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OPINION: The Rosenberg case revisited: heroes and betrayers
September 24, 2008The ugly days of the 1950s witchhunts returned to the headlines this month, hitting me in a very personal way.
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OPINION: A dose of ‘socialism’ to forestall financial disaster
September 20, 2008It's easy to become apocalyptic contemplating the vast sums of wealth being destroyed in the unfolding financial crisis gripping Wall Street. The economic tsunami unleashed there will soon reach every corner of the nation. Indeed globalization...
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