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Issue 227: January/February 2000

features

Predatory Lending

Jeanette Bradley and Peter Skillern

Banks trick poor into expensive loans.
Japanese Bank Mergers - Bigger, Not Better

Bill Tabb
Giving the Nod to Conglomerates

Jim Campen
Are Labor Standards Elitist?

Ellen Frank
Savings Scam

Fred Block
After Seattle

Special Section on the WTO

the regulars

economy in numbers The Real Y2K Crisis: Global Economic Inequality
ask dr. dollar How much does the U.S. government spend on NATO and on the United Nations?