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Economics for Dummies: Toyota vs. Too Big To Fail

Any questions?

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Economics for Dummies: Of Haiti and major league baseball

Hmmm. You don’t suppose this callous attitude has anything to do with jock culture, do you?

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Quotable: Thomas Jefferson on corporate “personhood”

“I hope we shall…crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.”–Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan, … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: Capitalism, explained succinctly

“Penalized”, by the way, means “with a slap on the wrist, a fine so small that it barely makes a dent in the profits, and can therefore still be read as a reward”–hence the Freudian slip.And “people”, in this case, … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: Amen!

And when you consider that the man’s a safety expert, you know it’s true. How many CEOs do you know who pay more than cursory attention when the flight attendants do their little takeoff spiel, anyway? And yet, shockingly, there … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: Thanks for NOTHING, Dubya!

Finally, the WaHoPo decided to tell the awful truth about the first nine years of the Decade from Hell. My big question is, WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY WHEN THE US ECONOMY WAS BEING RIGGED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN?

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Economics for Dummies: Capitalism + golf + scandal = ?

O Eldrick*, what hast thou wrought, forsooth? The sex scandal that engulfed Tiger Woods may have cost shareholders of companies endorsed by the world’s No. 1 golfer up to $12 billion in losses, according to a study by two economics … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: The truth about the “recovery”

Let The Real News explain it all to you…No surprise here: If you have a lot of money to play with, you can make a lot of money in the “free” market. But that doesn’t mean it’s right. And it … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: A winter soldier speaks out on war and racism

Mike Prysner of Iraq Veterans Against the War hits the nail on the head: “Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; the real enemy is a system that … Continue reading

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Economics for Dummies: Socialism really IS good for capitalism!

Unfortunately, this is all too true.

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