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| Trillion Dollars Wall Street Bailout |
By Ben Mah 2008-10-1
One of most outrageous feature of Mr. Paulson plan is that he places himself, and the U.S. Treasury above the law with no Congressional oversight. Henry Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs CEO, still owns more than $500 million of the investment bank stocks, places himself in an unenviable position with this initiative. It is reported that Goldman Sachs is to be one of the largest beneficiaries of the bailout. The conflict of interest is self-evidenct... |
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| Guanzi · Sixteen Chapters on Weighing and Balancing Economic Factors (《管子·轻重十六篇》): ( Chap 74 ) |
By Anonymous 2008-10-7
On making statistics and keeping a financial balance of the state.
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| Guanzi · Sixteen Chapters on Weighing and Balancing Economic Factors (《管子·轻重十六篇》): (Chaps 72 - 73) |
By Anonymous 2008-10-4
On Monopolizing the Salt and Iron Industry;
The Savings Policy of the State.
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| Too Big to Fail, or to Survive |
By William Poole 2008-10-4
The long-term health of the mortgage market is too important to be left to only two firms. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can survive as vigorous competitors without the special government privileges they've long enjoyed, fine. But if they insist on coming back to life as public-private hybrids with all sorts of unfair federal advantages, we'll only be setting ourselves up for more disasters. The wisest move, in the end, is to carefully let them wither away.
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| 2008: The Demise of Neoliberal Globalization |
By Immanuel Wallerstein 2008-9-29
The political balance is swinging back. Neoliberal globalization will be written about ten years from now as a cyclical swing in the history of the capitalist world-economy. The real question is not whether this phase is over but whether the swing back will be able, as in the past, to restore a state of relative equilibrium in the world-system.
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