Finance

The General Electric Superfraud

by David Gargill,

Why the Hudson River will never run clean

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

Voodoo Academics

by Christopher Beha,

Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy

Too Big to Burn

by McKenzie Funk,

AIG plays God in a man-made firestorm

Reindustrialize

by Eric Janszen,

Tax the Land

by Michael Hudson,

Abolish Stock Options

by Barry C. Lynn,

Realign the Interests of Wall Street

by Joseph E. Stiglitz,

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark, on September 23, 2008

Caught in the Web, 1860. After many years of increasing borrowing and at least thirteen months of evidence of an impending catastrophe, American financial institutions faced the worst credit crisis…

Cheaper Cell

by Muhammad Atef,

From a memorandum by Mohammed Atef, a.k.a. Abu Hafs, an Egyptian-born Al Qaeda leader who died in Afghanistan in 2001, to Abu Khabab, an Al Qaeda member. Translated from the…

The Next Bubble