Tag: financial crisis
Solving our financial problems
Does the U.S. have enough assets to solve some of its financial problems?
‘Total embarrassment:’ WaPo rebuked for failed fact-check of Sanders on trillion-dollar...
"The piece portends to be an exercise in empirical rigor and mathematical precision. But he's really just playing games with semantics and definitions. And people who understand the issues he 'fact-checks' can see it."
Retrospectives of the financial crisis are leaving out the most important...
It seems the only people not consulted for their perspective were those most powerfully affected by the crisis’ impact – the millions of families who suffered foreclosure and eviction.
There’s a new crash coming
Skyrocketing debt, Wall Street deregulation, a fraying social safety net, and a diminished dollar could soon leave the United States looking like Greece.
Ten years since economic collapse sparked Occupy Wall Street, the Cooperative...
“I think … we recognize we really haven’t done anything serious to deal with the causes of this crash.”
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
Central banks have gone rogue, putting us all at risk
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.
The three big lessons we didn’t learn from the economic crisis
The Street’s political clout is as great as ever, which explains why the Dodd-Frank safeguards are now being watered down – clearing the way for another crisis.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Truly remaking Social Security is the key to having a livable society in the...
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In the crosshairs: The perilous reality for journalists in 2023
Examining the heightened risks faced by journalists in conflict zones, especially in the Gaza Strip, amidst global political tensions and criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
Why so many nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles?
Apocalypse will be highly likely. Artificial intelligence is not going to save us. These weapons need to be outlawed, not produced and purchased en masse.
Across Africa, water conflict threatens security, health, and the environment
The scarcity-led conflict and crisis.