Economics
MLK’s children: U.S. needs values revolution, not a sanitized idol
April 6, 2018"Quite frankly, I would say there were a number of reasons my father was killed. He was talking about a radical redistribution of wealth,” Martin Luther King III said.
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Senate passes rollback of some Dodd-Frank bank regulations
March 15, 2018Unbelievably, at a time of record-breaking bank profits, Congress now wants to deregulate some of the largest financial institutions in America.
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GOP goes for win on taxes, consequences be damned
December 1, 2017Republicans are appeasing fat-cat CEOs and shareholders to get themselves a win on taxes.
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China cements “Silk Road” ties to central and eastern Europe
November 28, 2017"We see the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative as a new form of globalization based on common respect and common advantages."
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Under siege: Socialist Venezuela pushes back against U.S. and its allies
November 22, 2017The Maduro government is holding on, despite fearsome economic challenges and an opposition fortified by a combative business class and U.S. support.
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