1. No atonement for past economic sins
(Newsletter)

...EWS    Monday, 24 November 2008 Given all the talk about bailing out U.S. automakers, Citigroup, AIG, American banks, and others, the focus has primarily been on whether the bailouts will ...

2. Obama’s Song & Dance in Cairo
(Opinions/op-ed)

...e ground, nor it can be sustained while young people are out of work”. Many Gulf States withdrew their money from American banks after 911. Obama also wanted the Gulf States to increase its production...

3. Arming Terrorist Israel
(Opinions/op-ed)

...hese loans the US will bail Israel out with American tax money similar to the latest $700 billion bailout for the American banks. There is a condition on these loan guarantees. It states that these lo...

4. Joseph Stiglitz on Obama's Address
(Opinions/Features)

...IGLITZ: And for developing countries, it’s having a devastating effect. I mean, just a couple days ago, the other American banks were complaining about the huge subsidies that were given to Citibank. ...

5. Bailout Robbery
(Opinions/Politic)

Given all the talk about bailing out U.S. automakers, Citigroup, AIG, American banks, and others, the focus has primarily been on whether the bailouts will be successful, at least in terms of resolvin

6. Interventionism Destroys Freedom
(Opinions/Politic)

...ng, Americans have learned that the federal government plans to use some of its investment bailout money to force American banks to sell some of their stock to the federal government. In Latin America...

7. The Corporate State Fails
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ct was finally scrapped because the artificial separation of banking functions prevented diversification and made American banks vulnerable to full-service foreign competition. Repeal of Glass-Steagal...

8. The Decline of US Hegemony
(Opinions/Society)

...ses of the American financial system will grow to more than $1 trillion, an amount equal to all the assets of all American banks. The next domino to fall will be credit card defaults, and after that....

9. Breaking the Sound Barrier
(Editor/Daily)

...worlds. BRIAN WILLIAMS: Senator Edwards, I neglected to point out that one of the companies keeping these giant American banks afloat is Kuwait, a nation, an economy arguably afloat itself today, as...

10. The Iranian Nuclear Showdown
(Opinions/Features)

...ween US business and Iran and sequestered all Iranian assets in the US, including some $18 billion in deposits in American banks, assets which the US government still holds. Admittedly, the ban was co...