Archive for March, 2010
(Repost from Feb. 25:) Goldman Sachs and Greece
Dear blog readers: This is a restored version of one of the posts, from Feb. 25, that we lost when our blog got !@#$%&ed up in the past couple of days. I have figured out how to fix the half-dozen posts that were broken, and how to post new ones, but it involves a laborious ...Read more.
Unemployment at 9.7%; Links on Jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs numbers for February this morning; find the Employment Situation Summary here. I apologize for not keeping up with the blog for the last few days—we have been busy rushing the March/April issue of Dollars & Sense to the printers (late, but by less than usual for us!). ...Read more.
Debt Vultures in Liberia (Greg Palast)
Greg Palast continues to follow the story of debt vultures who “buy up the loans of poor governments, wait for them to win debt relief from the international community, and then use courts to pursue the countries for assets,” for BBC TV Newsnight and an article in the Guardian. Palast wrote about debt vultures for ...Read more.
A Titanic Budget (Jo Comerford)
A great piece from Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project, recently posted at TomDispatch. Here is Tom Engelhardt’s introduction: If there were a prize for worst headline of the week, even the month, it would surely go to a February 23rd piece in the New York Times headlined online: “Gates Calls European Mood a ...Read more.
