Vanishing Dollars

Vanishing Dollars

 

A woman stands among her possessions after being evicted from her house.

Econocide: Body Count

by: Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com

OPINION

Vanessa Hahn, a victim of a subeprime loan.

Banks That Received Federal Cash Enabled Subprime Lenders, Report Finds

by: Dina ElBoghdady, The Washington Post

NEWS

US Treasury Secretary Geithner (R) and President Obama (L).

Cashing In on "Government Sachs"

by: Robert Scheer, Truthdig

OPINION

A mother and daughter watch TV in their van.

Recession Can Hit Hard in Families Headed by Women

by: Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA Today

NEWS

A female student holds a test tube.

Obama College Loan Plan Would Help Students Instead of Banks

OPINION

Picnic at Cherry Hill, Central Park, NYC, April 19, 2009.

Change We Didn't Expect?

by: Florentin Collomp, Le Figaro

OPINION

Bernard Madoff walking to federal court.

Bernie Madoff

by: Michael Moore, Time Magazine

OPINION

President Obama speaks about Chrysler.

Chrysler Lenders Tried Obama's Patience, Lost Game of Chicken

by: Julianna Goldman and Linda Sandler, Bloomberg News

NEWS

Kenneth D. Lewis.

Ken Lewis Ouster: The Start of Something Big

by: Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future

OPINION

Hakim El Karoui.

This Is Primarily a Crisis of Globalization

by: Hakim El Karaoui, Marianne2

OPINION

Guillermo Jimenez holds a credit card bill.

House Passes Credit Card Bill That Helps Consumers

by: Marcy Gordon, The Associated Press

NEWS

Prime Minister Gordon Brown greets Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The IMF Invoice - Red Flag

by: Serge Truffaut, Le Devoir

OPINION

FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair.

Regulators Shut Banks in Georgia, Michigan, California, Idaho

by: Margaret Chadbourn and Ari Levy, Bloomberg News

NEWS

Obama in Bedford Heights, Ohio, factory.

Obama the Repairman

by: Favilla's Chronicle, Les Echos

OPINION

GM factory workers in Janesville, Wisconsin.

GM to Temporarily Shut 13 Plants, Cut Production

by: Tom Krisher, The Associated Press

NEWS

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More Fiscal Stimulus Is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline

by: Mark Weisbrot, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

OPINION

The chief executive officer of Bank of America, Kenneth D. Lewis.

Documents: Bank of America Pressured to Complete Merger With Merrill Lynch

by: Tomoeh Murakami Tse and David Cho, The Washington Post

NEWS

People crowd Wall Street after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Bill Moyers Journal | Investigating Wall Street?

by: Bill Moyers Journal, t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

NEWS

High school students work on a drafting assignment.

Report Says Education Gaps Create "Permanent Recession"

by: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor

NEWS

Juanito Perez, 5, of Los Angeles in a sleeping bag at Dolores Mission Catholic Church.

Foreclosures Take Health Along With Homes

by: Chris Metinko, The Oakland Tribune

NEWS

Moose in the river.

Losing the North

by: Hervé Kempf, Le Monde

OPINION

Casey Edwards at a press conference.

South Carolina Student Files Lawsuit Over Sanford's Stimulus Standoff

by: John O'Connor, The State

NEWS

Superintendent of Schools Ramon Cortines.

LA School Board Votes to Lay Off 5,400 Employees

NEWS

Geithner.

The Geithner Bubble

by: Jacques Attali, L'Express

OPINION

Former US Sen. Phil Gramm.

Endgame for Gramm?

by: Robert Scheer, Truthdig

OPINION

FDR in hat.

Where Did Roosevelt Go?

by: Gil Courtemanche, Le Devoir

OPINION

Rick Rottschafer, 48, refinanced the mortgage on his home.

Why We're Not at the Beginning of the End

by: Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

OPINION

The corner of Wall Street and Broad.

Wall Street Digs In

by: Michael Hirsh, Newsweek

OPINION

Royal Bank of Canada building in Toronto.

Healthy Canadian Banks

by: Nicolas Schmitt, Le Temps

OPINION

Mexican aluminum worker at Tijuana maquiladora.

G-20 Ignored Social "Havens"

by: Sylvain Lapoix, Marianne2

OPINION

Road to Polihale State Park.

Island DIY: Kauai Residents Don't Wait for State to Repair Road

by: Mallory Simon, CNN

NEWS

Masked demonstrators gather outside the Bank of England in London, on April 1, 2009.

Addicts of Capitalism

by: François Flahault, Le Monde

OPINION

Liberty Leading the People, by Eugene Delacroix (1830).

After 1789, 2009?

by: Sophie Wahnich, Le Monde

OPINION

Homeless tent city near Sacramento, California.

It's a Depression

by: Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

OPINION

Job searchers at 2009 Big Apple Job Fair in New York.

Unemployment Jumps to 8.5 Percent, Economy Sheds 663,000 Jobs

by: Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

OPINION

Congressional leaders during news conference on budget.

House, Senate Budget Plans Boost Obama Agenda

by: Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press

NEWS

Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

Ecological Emergency

by: Guillaume Malaurie, Le Nouvel Observateur

OPINION

A crisis spreading across the country is that of college affordability.

Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country

by: Andy Kroll, TomDispatch.com

OPINION

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

Are Governors Serious About Refusing Stimulus? We'll See

by: James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers

NEWS

Jobs Not War London demonstrators 2009.

Europe's G-20 Expectations

by: François Sergent, Libération

OPINION

Andy Stern is expected to publicly call for Tim Geithner to fire Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis.

Unions Demand Geithner Fire Bank of America CEO

by: Greg Sargent, The Plum Line

NEWS

General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner.

GM Chief to Resign at White House's Behest

by: Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post

NEWS

Reaganomics/Obamanomics

Obamanomics Isn't About Big Government

by: Robert B. Reich, The Wall Street Journal

OPINION

Demonstrators outside the New York Stock Exchange.

Capitalists Against Capitalism

by: Favilla's Chronicle, Les Echos

OPINION

Economic crisis is latest argument for ending death penalty.

Hope Rising in US for National Death Penalty Ban

by: Lucile Malandain, Agence France-Presse

NEWS

David C. Monson of North Dakota.

Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need

by: Dara Colwell, AlterNet

OPINION

Israel Trujillo has his height measured at the Rosepark Women, Infants and Children Clinic.

Family Planning a Priority for More in Tough Economy

by: Heather May, The Salt Lake Tribune

NEWS

Dexia Building, Luxembourg.

Who Should, Who Must, Pay to Save the Banks?

by: Jacques Delpla, Les Echos

OPINION

House Budget Committee Chairman John M. Spratt Jr.

House Democrats Try to Pare Obama's 2010 Budget

NEWS

Biden, Fillon and Lagarde.

A Divided G20?

OPINION

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