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November/December 2002

Issue 244

features

  • The Great Stock Illusion

    ELLEN FRANK

    The enormous paper wealth "created" by the stock market was bound to dissolve.

  • Taking One From the Bush Team

    DEAN BAKER

    The Social Security commission's plan for a universal portable pension makes sense, so long as it does not privatize Social Security.

  • Haitian Free Trade Zone

    CLARA JAMES

    Aristide's "different" capitalism is the same old story.

  • Recession: Government Spending to the Rescue

    ROBERT POLLIN

the regulars