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"  May 21, 2011 Roundtable on Sustainable Development A sustainable natural environment requires new forms of distribution and ownership  "

"  December 02,2011 Eurozone Woes Result from Mating of Our "Dysfunctional" Political, Economic Systems 2011/12/2/richard_wolff_eurozone_woes_result_from   "

"  August 23, 2011 Should Banks be a Public Utility? Yves Smith: Finance sector controls the regulatory process.....  "

"  October 1, 2011 The Trouble with Billionaires Linda McQuaig: Concentration of wealth in North America growing and dragging down economy   "
"  December 1, 2011 US Fed Buys Europe Some Time Rob Johnson: Move by Fed papers over structural issues; austerity policies meant to weaken social safety net and lower workers wages   "

"  November 11, 2009 Anatomy of casino capitalism Jane D'Arista unravels the web of banking confidence schemes   "

"  August 31, 2011 Without Short-Term Stimulus Global Economy Will go Over the Precipice Michael Greenberger: Lack of capital for productive investment starving global economy   "

"  August 8, 2011 Crisis in Europe Driving Crash James K. Galbraith: Unraveling of the Euro-Zone is panicking global markets, nothing to do with S&P   "

"  April 7, 2011 Capitalism, Chinese Style Orville Schell on China's view of American debt April 7, 2011   "

"  December 1, 2011 US Fed Buys Europe Some Time Rob Johnson: Move by Fed papers over structural issues  "

"  December 1, 2011 It's About Wall St. but it's Not All About Speculation John Weeks: We are not far from the day when government will be smaller than the financial sector  "

"  October 4, 2011 Euro-Chaos and Global Capitalism Leo Panitch: We are witnessing the irrationality of capitalism and the incredible struggle of people in the street   "

"  November 24, 2011 Global Recession Looms as Euro Crisis Deepens Costas Lapavitsas: Crisis deepens as Germany fails to sell-out 10 year bonds;  "

"  November 25, 2011 Does Smaller Government Create More Jobs? Bob Pollin: There is no evidence that austerity and cuts to social programs creates jobs  "

"  November 28, 2011 Democratic Governance is Becoming Discredited Tom Ferguson: The two major parties have next to no relationship to the population, it is a deeply corrupt discussion  "

"  October 17, 2011 Is The Current Economic Crisis The Next Great Depression? John A. Miller: Government spending is necessary to spark economic growth, increase jobs and wages  "

"  October 16, 2011 A Real Challenge to Corporate Power Arthur MacEwan: Opposing bail out of bankers and fighting for Universal Health Plan challenges corporate power http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7445 The Greek People Never Agreed to the Debt or Austerity Michael Hudson: There is nothing democratic about sending Greece into a decade of depression  "

"  October 6, 2011 Saving the Dollar, Destroying Jobs and the Financial System Gerry Epstein: In '71 Nixon closed the gold window and contributed to rise of the domination of finance and weakening of the real economy  "

"  August 31, 2011 How Dangerous is This Moment? Jeff Madrick, author of the Age of Greed, says with wages flat austerity measures and the domination of finance  "

"  April 19, 2011 Why Did S&P Issue Warning on US Bond Rating? Kevin Hall and Mark Weisbrot discuss reasons for Standard and Poor's warning US could lose AAA rating  "

"  April 4, 2011 23 Things They Don't Tell you About Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang: There is no such thing as a free market  "

"  July 5, 2011 Real Estate Saves Capitalism Then Bursts - China Next? David Harvey: Chinese urbanization, construction and real estate speculation is saving global capitalism.  "

"  May 6, 2011 High Deficits were the Objective of Right Economics James Crotty: High deficits deliberately created to justify return to 1920's capitalism.  "

"  December 16, 2010 The Recession is Also a Mancession Nancy Folbre: Men are losing jobs faster than women   "

"  May 30, 2011 Crisis is not Behind us Randall Wray: Banks are bigger than in '07; need regulation and increase in purchasing power and jobs program to avoid bigger crash  " "  March 19, 2010 To rob a country, own a bank William Black, author of "Best way to rob a bank is to own one" talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St.  "

"  October 3, 2009 Globalization, a "devastating success" Jomo K.S.: "Before the crisis, finance accounted for 15% of the economy, but had 40% of the profits."  "

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