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The Courage of Conscience
Aug 1, 2012 "Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times" tells the stories of unlikely dissenters who were not radicals, but rather ordinary people compelled to act when the system they believed in went terribly wrong."Beautiful Souls" tells the stories of unlikely dissenters who were not radicals, but rather ordinary people compelled to act when the system they believed in went terribly wrong.
Decade of the Living Dead
Mar 16, 2012 "Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy" is a grisly and horrifying true story of bloodsucking, flesh-eating, life-destroying fiends.
S&P Downgrades and Banks: Threats to Global Stability
Jan 19, 2012 The markets weren’t shocked by last week’s wave of pre-broadcast S&P sovereign debt downgrades. For months, the question wasn’t “if” but “when.” And true to form, just as with the U.S. downgrade, S&P’s reasoning skated the surface of prevailing wisdom.Standard & Poor’s likes moving on Friday nights after the markets are closed.
Disasters Merging
Sep 23, 2011 Catastrophic convergence, the “collision of political, economic, and environmental disasters,” is the theme of Christian Parenti's epic new book, “Tropic of Chaos.” “Tropic of Chaos” paints a grim picture of what happens when political, economic and environmental disasters meet.
The Real IMF Assault
May 20, 2011 As newly resigned International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn hunkers down in his jail cell, IMF news has fallen into two categories. Both miss the devastation the IMF causes, regardless of who heads it.
Obama’s Two-Year Economic Report Card
Jan 1, 2011 There are two potential ways to measure the economic performance of a political leader One is by the profitability, stock prices and executive bonuses of a nation’s corporations The other is by the financial condition of the majority of its population.
America the Material
Nov 25, 2010 Berman pulls no punches in laying bare the truths about who we are, not just as a nation, but also as individuals wrapped up in the destructive pursuit of material excess In the unswerving style of his other writings, he rips apart the national illusion of greatness .
Wall Street Wins Again
Nov 9, 2010 In the wake of the election, the Fed pulled off a move detected only by downtown Manhattan It quietly announced a purchase of $600 billion in Treasury securities (read: our debt) while pundits on the left and right were dissecting the role of the tea party in political life as we know it.
America’s Grotesque Inequality Can Only End One Way
Feb 26, 2019 The wealth gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.
The World Is Now the Property of the 1 Percent
Dec 17, 2018 In today's global economy, financial security increasingly belongs solely to the wealthy.
Could Trump Be a One-Man Version of the Lehman Brothers?
Sep 17, 2018 The disgraced global financial firm cooked the books, and the president may have done likewise. The trouble is that his shell games still largely remain to be revealed.
5 Key Financial Misadventures of the Trump Era (So Far)
Aug 5, 2018 Here's a look at the president's travels on the paths of chaos, and at the economic damage that might lie ahead.
Nomi Prins on the Banks That Run the World (Audio and Transcript)
Jul 1, 2018 In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” the author and former banker discusses what Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer calls her "most ambitious" book, "Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World."
How Donald Trump’s Trade Wars Could Lead to a Great Depression
Jun 24, 2018 If you make enemies out of your friends and friends out of your enemies, where does that leave you?
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster
Apr 30, 2018 There’s a crucial institution in Washington that few in the media seem to be paying attention to, even as President Trump quietly makes it his own.
Jared Kushner, R.I.P: A Political Obituary for the President’s Son-in-Law
Mar 19, 2018 Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration’s body count is already, as The Donald might put it: “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting.”
Trump’s Financial Arsonists
Feb 1, 2018 Nearly every regulatory institution tasked with monitoring the financial system is now run by someone who once profited from bending or breaking its rules.