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02:01 | Obama Quotes Lincoln To House Dems: 'I Am Bound To Be True' (VIDEO)
Obama Quotes Lincoln To House Dems: 'I Am Bound To Be True' (VIDEO) - اخبار المعهد العربي WASHINGTON -- Victory within reach, President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats on Saturday for a final health care push, and party leaders appeared confident they had overcome a flare-up over abortion funding restrictions in the...
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21:47 | Mike Elk: China to US: We're Just "Emotionally Unavailable"
Mike Elk: China to US: We're Just "Emotionally Unavailable" - اخبار المعهد العربي Man China has had a really rough week. A bipartisan group of economists ranging from Paul Krugman to the conservative Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute have called for tariffs on China to fix the currency manipulation problem. Then a bipartisan...
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07:43 | Yves Smith: SEC, Fed Alerted By Merrill of Lehman Balance Sheet Games in...
Yves Smith: SEC, Fed Alerted By Merrill of Lehman Balance Sheet Games in March 2008 - اخبار المعهد العربي So which theory is it: stunning bureaucratic incompetence, wishful thinking and denial, or a cover up? Or a combination of the above? No matter which theory or theories you subscribe to, the continuing revelations of how the...
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07:43 | Arianna Huffington: Celebrating Sen. Ted Kaufman, Accidental Leader
Arianna Huffington: Celebrating Sen. Ted Kaufman, Accidental Leader - اخبار المعهد العربي At a time when our political and financial landscapes are littered with villains and those unwilling to take them on, it's refreshing to find someone in the halls of power that we can unabashedly celebrate. Enter Sen. Ted Kaufman of Delaware....
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07:43 | Iris Erlingsdottir: The Banks' Bonus Culture: "Have you left no sense of...
Iris Erlingsdottir: The Banks' Bonus Culture: "Have you left no sense of decency?" - اخبار المعهد العربي It is very disturbing that Iceland's banks have begun clamoring for reinstatement of the bonus culture that contributed to their collapse in 2008. The reckless decisions made by the banks' geniuses of finance in the preceding...
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07:43 | MAPLight.org Shows Links Between Politicians' Votes, Campaign...
MAPLight.org Shows Links Between Politicians' Votes, Campaign Contributions - اخبار المعهد العربي It's no mystery that money has become a key factor in American politics. But until now it's been difficult to show voters just how closely politicians hew to the interests of their political patrons and campaign donors. MAPLight.org, a...
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01:14 | Kathryn Schulz: Review: Michael Lewis's The Big Short
Kathryn Schulz: Review: Michael Lewis's The Big Short - اخبار المعهد العربي The story of the 2008 financial crisis is, overwhelmingly, a story of losses and losers. The losses include 5 million jobs in the United States alone, tens of millions more overseas, and some 40 percent of the world's wealth. The losers include, at a...
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11:46 | Government Bank Regulators Got Big Bonuses
Government Bank Regulators Got Big Bonuses - اخبار المعهد العربي WASHINGTON — Banks weren't the only ones giving big bonuses in the boom years before the worst financial crisis in generations. The government also was handing out millions of dollars to bank regulators, rewarding "superior" work even as an avalanche of risky...
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00:16 | Ryan Mack: Open Letter to Magic Johnson: Please Stop Promoting Financial...
Ryan Mack: Open Letter to Magic Johnson: Please Stop Promoting Financial Predators! - اخبار المعهد العربي Dear Mr. Johnson: I remember when I used to play basketball in high school and my father bought me a tape called Showtime. It was about your life and I must have watched it at least 100 times. Your story inspired me to no end...
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20:55 | Eric C. Anderson: Beijing, Washington and Currency Manipulation
Eric C. Anderson: Beijing, Washington and Currency Manipulation - اخبار المعهد العربي Apparently not satisfied with two wars, a national debt approaching $14 trillion, and endless partisan bickering, Congress now wants to pick a fight with China. On March 15, 2010, the collective "wisdom" of our elected representatives was...
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20:55 | History Of The Honey Trap: How Spies Use Sex As Bait
History Of The Honey Trap: How Spies Use Sex As Bait - اخبار المعهد العربي MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled "The Threat from Chinese Espionage," the famed British security service described a wide-ranging Chinese effort...
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20:55 | Dave Johnson: Chinese Currency Manipulation: "Not A Small Issue"
Dave Johnson: Chinese Currency Manipulation: "Not A Small Issue" - اخبار المعهد العربي This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a Fellow with CAF. The Chinese currency manipulation issue continues to make news. Economist Paul...
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14:47 | Robert Scheer: Lame Bill from a Lame Duck
Robert Scheer: Lame Bill from a Lame Duck - اخبار المعهد العربي If you think health care reform has been an unsatisfying test of the government's ability to deal with our pressing problems, brace yourself for bigger disappointment in its attempt to bridle Wall Street. This is when the true heavies go to work and, as opposed to the...
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08:59 | Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Jimmy Stewart Is Dead
Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Jimmy Stewart Is Dead - اخبار المعهد العربي With lingering unemployment, massive Wall Street bonuses, and an angry electorate, the Administration is devising new "reforms." The list includes taxing big banks, limiting bonuses, paying bankers in stock, prohibiting commercial banks from proprietary trading as...
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21:42 | Kenneth Kales: You're the Economic Expert
Kenneth Kales: You're the Economic Expert - اخبار المعهد العربي Debt is at record levels worldwide, both public and personal. In fact, it's been recently reported that globally an increasing number of nations are simply printing more money to cover debt. One of the significant differences about the American economy, as opposed to...
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13:38 | Will The Volcker Rule Survive In Dodd's Bill? Citigroup Is Betting That It...
Will The Volcker Rule Survive In Dodd's Bill? Citigroup Is Betting That It Won't - اخبار المعهد العربي Devotees of former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker may less than thrilled by the bill unveiled by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) Citigroup, for its part, doesn't seem to believe the rule is coming anytime soon. The bank is actually hiring...
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09:47 | Richard (RJ) Eskow: An Act of Dodd: Draft Bill Would Let Pols Duck the...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: An Act of Dodd: Draft Bill Would Let Pols Duck the Question, "Are You For Consumers or Banks?" - اخبار المعهد العربي Democracy requires vigorous public debate in an open forum, conducted by leaders willing to take a public stand and face the consequences. Today's proposal on banking reform from Sen. Dodd is the...
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01:36 | My Bookmarx 03/16/2010
Dreams shattered in Black America | SocialistWorker.org Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor documents the devastating foreclosure crisis in the African American community–and sets out the historical backdrop of housing issues and racism. tags: usa, financial_crisis, foreclosure, racism, African_Americans, Latinos, socialistworker In Chicago, foreclosures...
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00:45 | Lehman Brothers Scandal: Blogs Beat The Mainstream Press On The Key...
Lehman Brothers Scandal: Blogs Beat The Mainstream Press On The Key Details - اخبار المعهد العربي Look, I know that Lehman collapsed a year and a half ago, but this is a major story -- one that finally gets awfully close to putting the crimes in the crisis. I'll go ahead and say it: If you've wanted to know about the Valukas report...
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18:18 | Dr. Jim Taylor: The Travesty of Education Budget Cuts
Dr. Jim Taylor: The Travesty of Education Budget Cuts - اخبار المعهد العربي I've been hearing so much about budget cuts to public education in the news lately. Last week, there were demonstrations all over the Bay Area protesting the massive budget cuts to public colleges, and secondary and elementary schools throughout California....
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22:58 | Hamdan Azhar: 21 Shots and the Pursuit of Justice: An Imam Dies in...
Hamdan Azhar: 21 Shots and the Pursuit of Justice: An Imam Dies in Michigan - اخبار المعهد العربي DETROIT -- It is a cold Sunday afternoon in February and asr prayer is being held at Masjid Al-Haqq. Children run outside, playing in the snow, rambunctious and full of life while their mothers serve the last of the stragglers who have...
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21:34 | Bob Dowling: AIG and the End of Trust
Bob Dowling: AIG and the End of Trust - اخبار المعهد العربي In our house it's known as the morning of the shriek. It was Sunday a year ago when my wife picked up the New York Times, hand shaking--and exploded. "They're what, they're what, they're giving them a bonus. A bonus for wrecking the world. Tell me this is wrong." But it...
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20:47 | Andy Kroll: Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era
Andy Kroll: Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era - اخبار المعهد العربي Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast...
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04:17 | Daniel Firger: Why We Need a New Bull Moose Movement
Daniel Firger: Why We Need a New Bull Moose Movement - اخبار المعهد العربي "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." With these fighting words, Teddy Roosevelt shrugged off an assassination attempt by a deranged Milwaukee saloon owner and -- bullet...
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18:10 | Dan Dorfman: PIGGS Problems Could Pepper U.S.
Dan Dorfman: PIGGS Problems Could Pepper U.S. - اخبار المعهد العربي A few months ago, if you read something that mentioned PIIGS, chances are you would probably mutter, hey, some goofball out there doesn't know how to spell pig. No more. Now we all know what PIIGS stands for: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, five...
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01:36 | My Bookmarx 03/13/2010
Labor War in the Mojave Rio Tinto mine, Boron, California .. Workers coming under attack. tags: usa, labor, California, workers, capitalism, corporations, the_Nation Power outages cause increase in deaths from faulty generators Daily power cuts in Gaza resulting from the Israeli blockade mean that Palestinians must now use cheap generators in their...
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23:55 | Zachary Karabell: Debt: The Third Rail of Journalism
Zachary Karabell: Debt: The Third Rail of Journalism - اخبار المعهد العربي Last week, I published an essay in Time magazine about debt, arguing that our current preoccupation with the federal deficit and with debt in general is a dangerous distraction from the real issue (namely, our inability to invest and spend wisely to create...
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00:28 | Reggie Middleton: The Financial Times' Banker on Bonuses
Reggie Middleton: The Financial Times' Banker on Bonuses - اخبار المعهد العربي A bank employee recently asked me: "As a trader, my bonus is derived directly from my profit and loss, which is accrued over the quarter and kept in a separate account. It does not go into the firm's bottom line and then back out to me. Also, like most...
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