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A/V Booth: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Truthdig Podcast: A ‘Queer History’ of Rick Santorum and Proposition 8

Ear to the Ground: Bailout, Tune Out

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on His Lawsuit Against the President

Cartoons: From Barack

Reports: You Can Arrest an Idea

Cartoons: Turkeys

Reports: Pulling Accounts From the Unaccountable

Ear to the Ground: To Protest Foreclosures, San Jose Priest Divests $3 Million From Bank of America

Reports: Where Does Occupy Go From Here?

A/V Booth: What Cellphone Taxes Say About Republican Hypocrisy

Truthdig Podcast: What Cellphone Taxes Say About Republican Hypocrisy

Ear to the Ground: S&P Accidentally Downgrades France

Reports: California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout

Ear to the Ground: Time to Move Your Money

Ear to the Ground: Cover-Up at the Cathedral

Cartoons: Swipe Fees

Cartoons: Preoccupied

Cartoons: Occupy Wall Street

Cartoons: Wall Street Protests

Ear to the Ground: Demanding More of the Wealthy

Reports: One Betrayal Too Many

Ear to the Ground: BofA Confirms Plan to Lay Off 30,000 Employees

Ear to the Ground: Quicksand of Debt for U.S. College Students

Ear to the Ground: Government Lawsuits Against Big Banks Are a Go

Reports: Amnesty for the Indefensible

Ear to the Ground: A Look at the ‘Bush-Obama’ Presidency

Ear to the Ground: Naomi Klein on Riots and Resistance

Cartoons: Barbarians at the Gate

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Out, Another Bank Critic to Lead Consumer Agency

A/V Booth: WikiLeaks Has a New Commercial

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Eric Schneiderman

Reports: Throw Out the Money Changers

Reports: State Crises Mean New Language of Deceit

Reports: Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values

Arts and Culture: How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of the Affordable Home

Reports: Govt’s Loan Mod Program Crippled by Lax Oversight and Deference to Banks

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America Reports $1.2 Billion Quarterly Loss

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s New Chief of Staff Makes $8.3 Million From Wall Street Gig

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Banker Fined by Swiss Court

Ear to the Ground: Swiss Banker to Give Bank Data to WikiLeaks

Ear to the Ground: Gag Me With a Banker

Ear to the Ground: The Information Technology Roller Coaster

Cartoons: Cutting Medicare and Social Security

Ear to the Ground: New Data Show Extent of Fed’s Free Money Programs

Ear to the Ground: No TARP in Iceland

Ear to the Ground: Soccer Star Boots the Banks

Ear to the Ground: $50 Billion for Irish Bailout

Reports: It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

Reports: Bad Guys of the Foreclosure Crisis

Reports: When Banks Are the Robbers

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America Ends Foreclosure Ban

Cartoons: Good Witch O’Donnell

Cartoons: Trickle Down Economy

Reports: Lies of the Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: Banks Can’t Be Bothered With Foreclosure Paperwork

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Summers and Volcker, GOP Pledge, Taxes, Schools

Ear to the Ground: Doing the Elizabeth Warren Shuffle

Ear to the Ground: Too Big to Fail, Except Online

Ear to the Ground: More Champagne for Goldman Sachs

Ear to the Ground: New England Republicans Assure Financial Reform Passage

Ear to the Ground: Corporate America’s First-Class Recovery

Ear to the Ground: Regulators Made Sure Goldman Sachs Got All of Its Bailout Money

Ear to the Ground: Bank Shares Zoom in Wake of Regulation Deal

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Reform Bill Nailed Down

Ear to the Ground: Retail Debit Fees May Be Capped

Reports: It Takes Power to Control Power

Reports: Why Financial Reform Will Be Easier Than Health Care

Cartoons: All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men

Ear to the Ground: Robin Hood Hacker

Cartoons: ‘Rescuing’ Iceland

Ear to the Ground: Fed to Raise Interest Rate

Reports: It’s Greek to Goldman Sachs

Reports: Why Obama Must Take On Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Banks’ Lame Apology Isn’t Enough

Cartoons: Bull Mechanics

Reports: Homeowners Say Banks Not Following Rules for Loan Modifications

Reports: The End of Wall Street Liberalism

Ear to the Ground: Early Review of the Angelides Commission: All Puff, No Punch

Cartoons: First Infidels

Reports: Wall Street Will Be Back for More

Ear to the Ground: Your Bailout Bill: $10,000 (and Counting)

Ear to the Ground: Goldman Sachs Duped Investors, Investigation Finds

A/V Booth: Move Your Money

A/V Booth: Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Wall Street 180 Started on Election Day

Reports: Financial Oversight: We’re Still Waiting, Mr. President

Reports: Is It Time for Financial Institutions to Give Back?

A/V Booth: Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Ear to the Ground: Bernanke Signals Possible End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ Era

Ear to the Ground: Fed Restricts Overdraft Fees

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Ear to the Ground: Geithner’s Fed Made AIG Pay Banks to the Max

Ear to the Ground: TARP Turns Its Attention to Small Banks

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Ear to the Ground: Obama Orders Salary Cuts

Reports: Night of the Living Deadbeats

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

Cartoons: Too Big to Jail

Reports: Wall Street Is Still Playing the Odds

Reports: Not Really a Lifeline for Homeowners?

Truthdig Podcast: A Lifeline for Homeowners? Not Really

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Ear to the Ground: Swiss Bank to Hand Over Account Info

Reports: Dennis vs. Goliath

Truthdig Podcast: Dennis vs. Goliath

A/V Booth: LRC: Iran on the Brink, Financial Regs, Health Care Snag

Reports: Daring to Dream

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Financial Plan Fails to Impress

Reports: Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It

A/V Booth: Bill Maher Is Hoping for a Little More Audacity

A/V Booth: LRC: Iran, Big Bank Payback, Reregulation and Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Some Banks to Repay Bailout Funds

Reports: Outrage—and Business as Usual

Ear to the Ground: Some Banks Are Seizing Social Security Payments

Reports: Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He’s Bailing Out?

Ear to the Ground: Treasury Covers for Stingy Banks

Ear to the Ground: You Can’t Teach an Old Predatory Lender New Tricks

Ear to the Ground: God Is Not a Fan of the Banking Industry

A/V Booth: Veteran Regulator Calls Geithner a Failure

Reports: The Nobelists vs. Obama and Geithner

Reports: Cars, Banks and Confusion

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on ‘The Tyranny of Dead Ideas’

Cartoons: Art Imitates Life

Ear to the Ground: Putting the ‘Toxic’ Back in Tarp

Ear to the Ground: Obama Stands by His Treasurer

Reports: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout

Cartoons: Tarred and Feathered

A/V Booth: Bernanke: Recession Will ‘Probably’ End This Year

Ear to the Ground: OK—So Where Did the Other Billions Go?

Reports: From Frozen Minds, a ‘Spending Freeze’

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: The ‘Comfy Retirement’ Dream Has Exploded

Ear to the Ground: Good Economic News, for a Change

Reports: If Only Obama Were as Radical as They Say

Reports: The A Word

Reports: Finding Peace in the Culture Wars

Ear to the Ground: Bernie Sanders Wants Answers, Writes Legislation to Get Them

Ear to the Ground: Dow Slides Below 7000, No End in Sight

Ear to the Ground: Islamic Banks Presented as an Economic Model

Reports: Robin-Hood Republicanism?

Reports: At Last, Accepting Some Clues From Across the Pond

Cartoons: Naming Rights

Ear to the Ground: And Now for Some Financial News That’s Not Utterly Disastrous

Reports: ‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap

Reports: Turn a Harsh Light Onto the Banks

Ear to the Ground: Citigroup Wants a Bigger Bailout

Reports: Downward Automobility

Reports: High Ideals in Low Times

Ear to the Ground: A Non-Rising Tide Lifts No Boats

Ear to the Ground: $75 Billion to Fight Foreclosures

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: Blame Your Puny Paycheck

Reports: Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: A Hand on History

Reports: Where’s the Top Gun?

Reports: The High Cost of Centrism

A/V Booth: CEOs Were Bailed Out, Homeowners ... Not So Much

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Reports: Who Knew Bankers Were This Stupid?

Reports: Making Him Do It

Cartoons: What’s Left

Ear to the Ground: Fed Takes a Swing at Foreclosures

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Ear to the Ground: Senate Sends Geithner to Treasury

Ear to the Ground: Biden Says Banks May Get More, More, More

Reports: The Downside of Bipartisanship

Reports: Congress Sings the Bailout Blues

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America, Literally

Reports: Fool Me Once

Arts and Culture: Andrew Nagorski on the Bolsheviks’ Crimes

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Ear to the Ground: Regulator Gave Blessing to IndyMac Shenanigans

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Reports: Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Cartoons: Folklore

Reports: Unions Aren’t the Problem

Reports: The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

Reports: Breathing New Life Into Health Care

Reports: Obama’s E-Team

Reports: Sooner or Later, They’ll Bail Out Detroit

Ear to the Ground: Dow-nward Spiral

Reports: Bailout or Bust: How to Save the Big Three From Themselves

Ear to the Ground: Paulson Revises Bailout Strategy

Reports: Some Blame Must Follow the Financial Collapse

Ear to the Ground: Your Money Votes, Too

Reports: McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: Finding a Way Out After the Bailout

Ear to the Ground: Former Fed Chief: U.S. Already in a Recession

Ear to the Ground: Stocks Zoom as International Financial Community Rallies

Ear to the Ground: Markets Warm to Euro Bailout Plan

Ear to the Ground: Is Paulson Going Bank Shopping?

Reports: Open the Debates

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal

Ear to the Ground: Europe Catches Bailout Fever

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