How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Monday, October 13, 2008

A Nobel Prize for Paul Krugman
The Al Gore of partisan economics? Pshaw. He deserved this award, whether or not he was right about Republican economics.
Wall Street: Three cheers for socialism
Driven to ecstasy by news of worldwide bank nationalizations, the investor class celebrates. The Dow surges.
The Obama middle-class rescue plan
While McCain dithers, Obama swoops in with a multi-pronged bailout for Main Street.
Dow rises 936. Happy days are here again?
Don't be fooled. Investors are delirious because there is a plan to fix the banking system. But nothing is fixed, yet

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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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