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    Yes, LET’S look at the content of Marco Rubio’s speech

    FEBRUARY 18, 2013 6:18PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, unemployment, trivia, thomas kinkade, student-loan sharks, student-loan debt, student loans, state of the union, republican tea party, republican party, punks, punk, president barack obama, politics, paul ryan, paul harvey, marco rubio, liz sidoti, joseph stiglitz, immigration, global warming, florida, federal budget deficit, environment, economy, economics, college students, climate change, bobby jindal, barack obama

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    • 13 Comments
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    Could "October Surprise" Be a One-Ton Pumpkin?

    OCTOBER 2, 2012 11:39AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, capitalism, bill gates, topsfield fair, pumpkin record, internet, open sourcing, thomas friedman, microsoft, economic equality, joseph stiglitz, austerity, supply side economics, republicans, democrats, economic crisis, 2012 election, we are all in this together, farmers, great pumpkin, globalization, fox news, rush limbaugh, inflation, redistribution, rent-seeking, oil companies, open salon, blogging, sound barrier

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1422 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    This Fourth of July, Celebrate Equality

    JULY 4, 2012 9:02AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: occupy wall street, thomas jefferson, fox news, wall street journal, ayn rand, pursuit of happiness, liberty, life, practicality, utilitarianism, dicatatorship, authoritarianism, declaration of indpendence, thomas jefferson, conservatism, equality, freedom, free market, supply side economics, joseph stiglitz, chris hayes, wall street journal, egalitarianism, equality, economics, politics

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    • 18 Ratings
    • 2174 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Middle Class: “Help, I’m MELTING!”

    JUNE 14, 2012 8:35AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, economy, joseph stiglitz, the price of inequality: how today's divided society endangers our future, fed survey, economic meltdown, middle class, loss of net worth, democracy now, amy goodman, jamie dimon, great recession, great depression

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    • 12 Ratings
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    Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”

    MAY 2, 2012 1:18PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: and paul volker, christine romer, joseph stiglitz, robert reich, dodd-frank financial reform act, glass-steagall act, jeb hensarling, larry summers, president barack obama, timothy geithner, episode 3, power & wall street”, “money, frontline documentary, derivatives, wall street abuses, timothy geithner legacy, obama presidency, bank bailout, recession of 2007-09, economic meltdown, finance, economics, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 460 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Surprise, Surprise - IMF May Need Billions in Extra Funds!

    SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 12:20AM

    By John Galt


    Topics: christine lagarde, imf, new world order, federal reserve, bailout, greg palast, joseph stiglitz, tim geithner, hank paulson, larry summers, alan greenspan

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    Ethiopia: We Went, We Saw, We Got Chased Out…

    APRIL 24, 2011 11:47PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, ethiopia barley rice republic, ethiopia food aid, ethiopia oxford poverty and human development initiative multidimensional poverty index, ethiopia 11 percent growth, ethiopia 14.9 percent growth, ethiopia millennium goals, ethiopia european union, ethiopia imf, u.s. policy ethiopia, in-yo’-diaspora-face, water war egypt ethiopia, weapons of mass distraction. regime change eritrea, noam chomsky free speech, jeffrey sachs, joseph stiglitz, jagdish bagwati, columbia president lee bollinger, ted vestal, ethiopian human rights activists, zenawi world leader’s conference columbia university, ethiopian embassy, ethiopians howard university, girma birru, fekade shewakena, ethiopian opposition, growth and transformation plan, zenawi regime, diaspora ethiopians, ethiopia economy, ethiopian dictator, meles zenawi

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    The Party of Hate: Tea and No Sympathy

    OCTOBER 20, 2010 9:25AM

    By Monika Mitchell


    Topics: wall street, tea party, sustainable capitalism, social security, sharron angle, rand paul, public education, nj tea party patriots, mortgage markets, medicare, libertarian, joseph stiglitz, glenn beck, financial crisis, federal reserve, economic crisis, dick armey, capitalism, bailout, al gore, adam smith

    • 1 Ratings
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    Too Big To Fail is Too Big---Break Up the Banks

    MARCH 30, 2010 8:44AM

    By josey wales


    Topics: ted kaufman, too big to fail, richard fisher, dallas federal reserve, paul volcker, joseph stiglitz, sheila bair, geithner, dodd, citigroup, derivatives, open call

    • 1 Ratings
    • 258 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Small Business: Too-Big-To-Fail

    FEBRUARY 9, 2010 4:37PM

    By Monika Mitchell


    Topics: jobs report, national unemployment, president obama, american business, too-big-to-fail, small business direct lending fund, american capitalism, community banks, credit frozen, joseph stiglitz, help for small business, paul krugman, small business, small business stimulus plan

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    An Avalanche-Fence at the Bottom of the Mountain

    JULY 16, 2009 11:36AM

    By Jacob Freeze


    Topics: paul krugman, dean baker, joseph stiglitz

    • 0 Ratings
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    Weekly Audit: Why the Current Stimulus Plan Isn't Enough

    APRIL 7, 2009 9:24AM

    By The Media Consortium


    Topics: bank bailouts, estate tax, foreclosure, housing collapse, homelessness, stimulus plan funds, college education cost, joseph stiglitz, recession, wall street, unemployment rate, dow jones, labor department, job loss, job market, newsladder, economy newsladder

    • 2 Ratings
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    • 3 Comments
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    EAGLES IN A FROZEN ECONOMY

    APRIL 3, 2009 1:08PM

    By themadgreek


    Topics: economy, joseph stiglitz, dean petkanas, great depression, protectionism, china, germany, united states, deficit, trillion dollar stimulus, trillion, stimulus, world bank, africa, john maynard keynes, globalization, g-20, global economy

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