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No Accountability in NY or DC: $15 Billion for Jobs, $20 Billion for Bonuses - and Dodd Still Wants to Compromise

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
March 1, 2010

When I worked in the Financial District back in the nineties, the big-shot investment types loved to talk about accountability. Almost all male, they loved macho posturing. They got big money because they took big risks, they'd say. They were the Danger Boys. They had to lay it all on the line every day.

But if there's one thing we've learned in the past couple of years, it's that Wall Street lives in a No-Accountability Culture. It's No Risk, All Reward. read more »

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Palin vs Krugman On The Dollar -- Who Is Right?

By Dave Johnson
October 23, 2009

The other day I wrote about how the dollar is falling - but not against the Chinese Yuan. A falling, or "weak" dollar is great for American manufacturers, and therefore American jobs, because it makes American goods cost less everywhere else. read more »

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Major Free-Trade Economist Says China Tire Tariffs "Part Of The Rules"

By Dave Johnson
October 8, 2009

The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog wrote this yesterday: read more »

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Let's Re-Focus on Health Care

By Paul Krugman
From The New York Times
April 11th, 2008

The New York Times — Uninsured Americans often postpone medical care, even when they know they need it, because of expense. The end result is that the uninsured receive a lot less care than the insured. And sometimes this lack of care kills them. According to a recent estimate by the Urban Institute, the lack of health insurance leads to 27,000 preventable deaths in America each year.

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