Thu 2008-05-08 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: U.S. Sees First Sales Tax Revenue Drop in 6 Years
6 years; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; Sales Tax Revenue Drop; U.S. Sees.
U.S. Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Sun 2008-05-04 00:00 EDT
A Special Report: The Right's America-Hating Preacher
by Robert Parry | The Smirking Chimp; Reverend Sun Myung Moon "has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush's own family." Rev. Moon's lurid sex scandals, espionage, media empire, drug trafficking, gun-running
Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT
Foreign Policy: 8 Steps to a Trillion-Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris; how the U.S. financial crisis happened
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
Capital - WSJ.com
Ten Days That Changed Capitalism, by David Wessel, WSJ.com; "U.S. government discarded a half-century of rules to save American financial capitalism from collapse"
capitalism; com; WSJ.
Fri 2008-02-15 00:00 EST
Money Matters: World Elite Rats Destroy U.S. Sovereignty
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; in comments: "people can't credit a handful of intelligent and very directed and motivated people who desire to launch a war...The 'leaders' mill around, hoping for excuses to draw the sword and attack. But the sort of people who launched the 9/11 attacks were classic in their organization and the way they carried out their plans. The US contribution was to ignore them, not interfere with them and to let them do as the attackers wished. The DESIRE of Bush for an attack was very great."
Wed 2007-12-19 00:00 EST
LA Weekly
- Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turner - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles; "you don't see...the money process that goes on behind the scenes"; "The people in our government are so corrupt and so interested in doing favors that they cant even respond to an emergency anymore, like Katrina or like Iraq." [or credit implosion]
Mon 2007-09-10 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Nouriel Roubini: "The Coming U.S. Hard Landing"
Coming U.S. Hard Landing; naked capitalism; Nouriel Roubini.
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Roubini Global Economics (RGE) Monitor
The Coming U.S. Hard Landing, by Nouriel Roubini; "the first real crisis of the new world of financial globalization and securitization"
Sat 2007-09-01 00:00 EDT
The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury, by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone); Iraq a "paradise of perverted capitalism"
Wed 2007-08-29 00:00 EDT
Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets, by Heather Timmons and Katrin Bennhold (International Herald Tribune); Loan crisis blamed on lax regulators
calls grow louder; internal overview; International Herald Tribune; Print version; U.S. market.
Tue 2007-02-20 00:00 EST
AlterNet: 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire
by Chalmers Johnson (excerpt from "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic")