Posts Tagged ‘Wikileaks’
Left Forum and UALE
Apologies to regular blog readers–I have been too busy going to, and preparing for, conferences to find good material on Japan, Libya, etc. to post. Very quick updates: This past weekend Dollars & Sense was at Left Forum; our panel discussion on the banking sector went really well, with excellent analysis by Polly Cleveland and ...Read more.
Trouble for BofA; Cash for Gaza?
(1) More bad news for Bank of America: Earlier this week Bloomberg and other outlets reported on the settlement that has BofA paying Fannie/Freddie $2.8 billion, “after the U.S.-owned firms demanded the company buy back mortgages they said were based on faulty data.” This kind of news, along with WikiLeaks’ claim (which we’ve reported here ...Read more.
The Depression, Brave New World, 1984
(1) Comparisons with the Great Depression: The cover story for our Jan/Feb Issue, which is just going to the printers (but will be available in full color to e-subscribers by Wednesday, possibly earlier), is about unemployment–in particular the claim, rampant in the media these days, that today’s unemployment is “structural,” and has to do with ...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.
Obama’s PATCO; the Fed’s Wikileaks; Jobs
(1) Obama’s PATCO? Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama’s PATCO? asks Mike Elk at In These Times‘s labor blog Working In These Times. “The Obama Administration, looking to bolster its deficit-cutting credentials and show its desire to take on what some label a “special interest”—organized labor—yesterday announced a two-year freeze on the wages of all ...Read more.
Record Profits; Wikileaks and Bank of America; etc.
(1) Record Profits in 3rd Quarter: In case you missed it last week while making pumpkin pie, U.S. companies just had their best quarter on record. From the New York Times: American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday. That ...Read more.
Surveillance
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image: (2) Top Secret America: The series of articles by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin in the Washington Post about the growth of the national security sector, and especially of private contractors doing surveillance work for the government, has made a splash. (I like how WashPo has given the series its ...Read more.
