How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Senate votes for the bailout
By a 74-25 vote the Senate says yes to a $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street.
Byron Dorgan's warning about risk
Ten years ago, the senator from North Dakota warned against repealing Glass-Steagall. His premonition came true.
The big bailout squeeze
Another bad day for the economy, as unemployment jumps and credit gets tighter. Is a bad fix better than no fix at all?
Bushonomics, revisited
A quick review of the economic legacy of the man the New Yorker calls the worst president since Reconstruction.
What's so wrong about mass hara-kiri?
A reader makes a sharp observation. Plus: Joe Stiglitz doesn't like the bailout

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A big, fat "I told you so" from Joe Stiglitz
Eighteen years ago, he warned of the "perverse incentives" implied by mortgage securitization.
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A second act for Eliot Spitzer
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How national healthcare could have saved Detroit
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Marxist-Leninist Mao Zedong Ultraman to the rescue!
Who will dominate the ideological information technology battle of the future. The U.S.? China? Or is the game already over?
A second act for Eliot Spitzer
America: Land of the free, home of the forgiving. No matter what you do, there's an online column gig waiting in the wings
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The Big Three blame legacy retiree benefits for crippling their business. But it's their own darn fault.

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