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Thom Hartmann Interview: The Secret World of Shadow Banking [video]

By Richard Eskow | November 27, 2012

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This Friday we appeared on Thom Hartmann’s television show The Big Picture to discuss a new report on the dimly-lit world of shadow banking. Interesting stuff – we’ll be writing something on the topic soon, too. Here’s the video:



Washington’s Literal Sinkhole, And Our Idiotic Fixation On Deficits
 Robert Borosage
05/23/13

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On Tuesday, a “sinkhole” suddenly sank in Washington D.C. three blocks from the White House. Not a metaphor, but a massive hole in the road as “long as a Ford Explorer,”…



TPP: A Deregulation Treaty Not A Trade Treaty
 Dave Johnson
05/23/13

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The upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is using a process that is rigged from the start. It is not being negotiated by governments for the benefit of their people, it is being…



Offset This, Sen. Coburn
 Terrance Heath
05/23/13

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As I noted in my previous post, even before the winds died down in his home state, Oklahoma  Republican Sen. Tom Coburn insisted that additional disaster relief approved by Congress must be…



The Forces Driving America’s Education Spring
 Jeff Bryant
05/23/13

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Anyone who thinks education is the “civil rights issue of our time”  needs to look at what’s going on in Chicago. In three days of protests over the weekend and lapping into…



Apple Pie is American, But Apple Computer Isn’t. Not Anymore.
 Richard Eskow
05/22/13

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Did you know that Apple Computer has become a foreign entity? Did you know that it’s more Irish than anything else, at least as far as taxes are concerned? Or that it pays very little in…