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Here you will find links to articles and/or post that are relevant to many issues I view as important. I may have referenced some of these articles in my posts. Check back often as I will be adding to this list frequently. The latest stuff is at the top of each category. You should also check out the articles under my “Must-Read Stuff” over on the left.
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About Banks & Financial Reform
About Banks & Financial Reform
Investment Banks Do Not Always Need to Act in Their Customers’ Best Interest
Probe: Did Big U.S. Banks Contribute to the Financial Crisis in Greece?
US Banks Reject Effort by UK Bank Execs to Rein in Pay
The CFPA: How a Crusade to Protect Consumers Lost Its Steam
Isn’t AIG’s Stock Worthless? Then Why Is It $28 A Share?
Does IRS Notice Allowing TARP Recipients to Save Billions in Taxes Cost Ordinary Americans? Answer: YES! It allows those who used our already-paid tax dollars to stay alive to become even more wealthy at taxpayers expense. Capitalism at its best!
Linda Beale’s 2010 New Years’ Resolutions (10) for Congress and President Obama – Very, very good, given the fact that more than 90 percent of Americans would benefit from these resolutions.
What’s under the financial-crisis Christmas tree – Steven Pearlstein’s Christmas wish-list to Santa for 2009 – You gotta read this one.
‘Incompetent’ Leaders Pose Threat to Recovery
Wall Street Fairy Tale – Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Who’ll Rein In Wall Street? - Answer: No One!
As Subprime Lending Crisis Unfolded, Watchdog Fed Didn’t Bother Barking – How the Federal Reserve quitely changed law in 1998 which allowed them to ignor sub-prime lenders and let them run amuck.
Wall Street May Not Change Much Despite Reform Effort
In Shift, Wall Street Goes to Washington
So You Just Squandered Billions . . . Take Another Whack at It
Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?
Americans for Financial Reform
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch: A $50 Billion Deal From Hell
Bank of America: How to Lose $20 Billion of Value in 2 Trading Days
Mean Street: The Outrage of Bank of America’s Ken Lewis
Bankers’ bonuses Beat Earnings as Industry Imploded
The Dust Hasn’t Settled on Wall Street, but History’s Already Repeating Itself
Tenacious G – Inside Goldman Sachs — America’s most successful, cynical, envied, despised, and (in its view, anyway) misunderstood engine of capitalism.
U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion
Children, Toys, Greed, Profits, Gambling, and Lessons from History
An Even Worse Financial System Than the One With Which We Began
Is Another Huge Bank Failure Brewing?
By Dismantling Banking Rules, U.S. Government Has Guaranteed Future Financial Travails
The Bank Bailouts — Corporate Welfarism
Boom, Bust, and Blame – The Inside Story of America’s Economic Crisis - CNBC’s Version – Notice the other 9 accompanying topics on the left side of the linked web page. You may also want to visit the different navigation tabs at the top of that web page.
The Joy of Sachs – Great for Them; Bad for Everyone Else
About Taxes
Companies We Keep, and Pay For
Special Report: How the U.S. Cracked Open Secret Vaults at UBS
The Case For the Millionaires Surtax
Can You Believe the Senate’s Estate Tax Proposal?
Is “Tax Day” Too Burdensome for the Rich?
Bruce Bartlett on the “Tea Parties”
Fair Taxes for the 400 Richest Americans? — New IRS Data
Tax Competition: Why It Is Not A Good Thing
About Politics
Once Again, The More You Watch Fox The Dumber You Are
Tea Party Groups Battling Perceptions of Racism
Catholic School in Indonesia Seeks Recognition for Its Role in Obama’s Life
Supreme Court Ruling Calls for a Populist Revolt
Will Corporate Ads Buy 2010 Voters?
The Supreme Court Removes Important Limits On Campaign Finance
What Karl Rove Got Wrong On the U.S. Deficit
Linda Beale’s 2010 New Years’ Resolutions (10) for Congress and President Obama – Very, very good, given the fact that more than 90 percent of Americans would benefit from these resolutions.
Members of Congress Who Said ‘No’ to Health Care for the Uninsured Find Road to Riches
GOP Stall Tactics – Use the “No-Exit” Strategy – How the Republicans keep the Democrats from passing any bills, including the ones they support.
One Problem With Republicans: They’ve Got the Wrong Mitch
Want Real Reform? Let’s Sart With Congress
Journalists, Left Out of The Debate – Few Americans Seem to Hear Health Care Facts
Lincoln’s Prophecy for the GOP
Palin’s Red Menace – Echoes of McCarthyism From Sarah Palin
Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush
Onward, Christian Soldiers – Rumsfeld’s Top-Secret Bible Quotes
New Evidence Cheney Swayed Reaction to Leak – Valerie Plame
About News Media
In Journalism’s Crossfire Culture, Everyone Gets Wounded
Once Again, The More You Watch Fox The Dumber You Are
Anchors in an Unmoored World – Journalism After Cronkite, Jennings, Russert
About Health Care Reform
Evolution Of The Death Panel Meme – How the lies about reform started and perpetuated.
How Did Media Cover GOP’s 2003 Use of Reconciliation? They Didn’t! – “Funny, I don’t remember this level of media outrage in 2003, when Republicans passed President Bush’s tax cut legislation via reconciliation.”
The Role for Reconciliation – How the health care reform bill is not under consideration for reconciliation. The bill was passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009 with a 60-vote majority. Reconciliation will be used only for any House amendments to the bill.
Putting the Health-Care Bill’s Big Numbers In Perspective – Maybe the most unbiased look at the cost of the health care bill, debunking both the Democrats’ and Republicans’ claims.
Members of Congress Who Said ‘No’ to Health Care for the Uninsured Find Road to Riches
A way to deliver health care that’s better, safer and cheaper
Time for Health Insurers to Compete – How health insurance companies and medical malpractice insurance industries’ are exempt from federal antitrust laws that pretty much allow them to do anything they want.
Health Care Tactics – A GOP Blizzard of Untrue Statements
The Audicity of Greed: How Private Health Insurers Just Blew Their Cover
The GOP’s Top Chef Starves a Beast and Poisons a Debate
Behold, a National and Rational Conversation on Health Care
Like Your Health Insurance? Maybe You Shouldn’t.
‘Socialized Medicine? Bring It On
About Government
Congressional Perks: How the Trappings of Office Trap Taxpayers
A Flimsy Trust – Why Social Security Needs Some Major Repairs
About Torture
In 2002, Military Agency Warned Against ‘Torture’
The Banality of Bush White House Evil
About The Bush Administration
Federal Report on the President’s Surveillance Program
Human Interest
Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams
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