Posts Tagged ‘Rob Larson’

D&S Panel at Left Forum

D0llars & Sense is sponsoring a panel discussion at this year’s Left Forum  on the state of the banking sector.  The panelists will be:  Polly Cleveland of Columbia University; Rob Larson of Ivy Tech Community College; and William K. Black of the University of Missouri at Kansas City.  I (D&S co-editor Chris Sturr) will moderate.  ...Read more.

Assange Arrested, Austerity, Textbooks rated, etc.

(1) Julian Assange Arrested in London: The head of WikiLeaks turned himself in to Scotland Yard, was arrested, and was refused bail. He now faces possible extradition to Sweden, which he will resist. Here’s the story from the Guardian.  Here’s something interesting on the charges against him in Sweden, from an Australian lawyer who had ...Read more.

Foreclosure Trouble, etc.

(1) “Foreclosuregate” and the too-big-to-fail banks:  The blogosphere is abuzz about the trouble the big banks seem to be in with respect to foreclosures.  What’s gotten people going is the scandal that has been called “foreclosuregate” and “the Robo Signing Scandal,” wherein the big banks have evidently falsified or fabricated missing paperwork in order to ...Read more.

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