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At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street

By Robert Scheer

By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith.Continue

On the Road to Catastrophe
Subprime at the Car Lot

By Mike Whitney

Uncle Sam–who had to bail out the whole freaking financial system after the last subprime fisasco–is now “your friendly subprime auto dealer”? Continue

Both The Market and Government Are Irrational

By Paul Craig Roberts

Those dependent on Social Security and Medicare are finding that these programs are being blamed for budget deficits caused by multi-trillion dollar wars of choice. Continue

Hunger: The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools

By Bill Bigelow

During the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported 17 million pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry -- food that could have prevented those deaths.Continue

Soledad O’Brien on Breitbart’s Bombshell: ‘Where’s the Bombshell?’: In this CNN clip, Breitbart.com editor Joel Pollak is grilled by Soledad O’Brien in a way I wish more journalists would follow

Greece on the breadline: HIV and malaria make a comeback: Following savage cuts to the national health service budget, including heavy job losses and a 40% reduction in funding for hospitals, Greek social services were "under very severe strain, if not in a state of breakdown. What we are seeing are very clear indicators of a system that cannot cope."

Greek jobless rate passes 20% in fourth quarter2011: Greek jobless rate has jumped to 20.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 from 17.7 percent in the previous three month period, with more than a million people looking for work.

Spanish House Prices Tumble: Spanish house prices tumbled at their fastest pace on record in the fourth quarter, a sign that a long-running property bust will continue to weigh on Spanish households and banks

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

By Greg Smith

I attend derivatives sales meetings where not

Stranger than Fiction:

one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. Continue

UK: CCTV at gas stations will automatically stop uninsured cars being filled with fuel:Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are already fitted in thousands of petrol station forecourts. Drivers can only fill their cars with fuel once the camera has captured and logged the vehicle’s number plate