Saturday, 9 April 2011

Assange:

"WikiLeaks is the intelligence agency of the people": The WikiLeaks chief discusses radical journalism and WikiLeaks's main threat in an exclusive New Statesman essay.

The real story behind job creation:

The average rate of job growth over the last three months has been just 160,000. At that pace, we won't get back to normal rates of unemployment until after 2022.

Geithner Says Failure to Raise Debt Limit Risks Causing `Severe Hardship':

“You will shake the basic foundations of the entire global financial system,” Geithner told a Senate subcommittee today. “I’m totally confident that Congress will act to avoid that.” It would be “inconceivable” that lawmakers will not act in time, he said.

GOP plans $1 trillion Medicaid cut:

House Republicans are planning to cut roughly $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled

Mortgage mess: Who really owns your mortgage?: Do you know who really owns your mortgage? That question has become a nightmare for many homeowners since the invention of mortgage-backed securities. Yes, those were the exotic investments that sparked the financial collapse in this country. And the're still causing problems.