How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Friday, October 3, 2008

A debate question on jobs and the campaign
More bad news on the unemployment front: Is government part of the problem, or the solution?
Credit crisis, California-style
Annals of the financial panic of 2008: Schwarzenegger warns Paulson that the state may soon need an emergency $7 billion loan
McCain was right: Fire Chris Cox!
And Henry Paulson too, while we're at it. They made this mess, and they should pay for it. The New York Times has the evidence
Message from the House: "You better pray"
House Majority Leader John Boehner says no matter how the bailout vote goes, we're going to need God's help
The House votes for a bailout
Kicking and screaming, complaining all the way, the ayes have it
The end of the Reagan revolution
The vote to bail out Wall Street marks the demise of deregulation's stranglehold over the American economy
What would Jesus do, about the bailout?
A Christian news organization reports about the danger that illegal immigrants might get mortgage relief from the Paulson plan

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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.
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 23:44 EST
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?
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 21:29 EST
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
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 18:07 EST
How national healthcare could have saved Detroit
The Big Three blame legacy retiree benefits for crippling their business. But it's their own darn fault.
Thursday, Dec 4, 2008 02:19 EST

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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
How national healthcare could have saved Detroit
The Big Three blame legacy retiree benefits for crippling their business. But it's their own darn fault.

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