Friday, 16 September 2011


By Paul Craig Roberts

As an economist I have never had much patience with Paul Krugman’s economics.



By Michael T. Klare

Ditching oil for the new energy technologies should be America’s top economic priority, but if you’re in a betting mood, you probably shouldn’t put your money on Washington.


A high-level executive who reported corrupt lending practices at Countrywide Financial Corp. was improperly fired for leading internal investigations that “revealed widespread and pervasive wire, mail and bank fraud” at the lender, a federal agency ruled Wednesday.