A Bloomberg report informs us that "[t]he value of global financial assets including stocks, bonds and currencies probably fell by more than $50 trillion in 2008, equivalent to a year of world gross domestic product…."
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- Three Mile Island anniversary
- UPS dumps Bill O’Reilly
- More money and soldiers for Afghanistan
- More labor unrest in France
- Mr. DeSantis leaves AIG
- GOP to Cheney — go home, become invisible
- The poor will become poorer
- Kill off the zombie?
- Creationists set to impose their will on the country
- Some crimes of the greedy, reckless and self-absorbed
- Barack Obama’s Katrina moment?
- A new beginning
- On the uses of disorder
- The rocks that might wreck the ship of state
- A false dilemma
- The comparative calm about that “other” catastrophe
- Popular outrage focuses on Senator Dodd
- Another pundit jumps on the populist bandwagon
- The “perfect storm”
- The AIG backlash
- And just like that…
- Liddy seeks to save face
- Panic grips the Street
- The reason why the AIG bonus scandal matters
- Yet another AIG outrage
- Senator promotes seppuku
- Representative Kucinich calls for a Congressional ...
- It sounds like a plan
- Today marks the anniversary of Rachael Corrie’s death
- A danger to the nation
- Obama administration will try to block questionabl...
- The tolling bell
- The Obama administration fears opposition
- Catching up (3.16.2009)
- Remembering C. Wright Mills
- Decadence
- All American priorities…
- China warns Washington
- Celebrity death match?
- How America prepares for the coming civil unrest?
- Colbert chimes in on Rand
- Another revolutionary era?
- Looting alleged at Merrill Lynch
- Jon Stewart heaps further abuse on rightwing fools
- More whining from the right
- The coming civil turmoil....
- Tent City: Then and now
- Obama to limit his use of signing statements
- It’s only money
- Create a “good bank”
- Shrinking output vs. growing needs
- Prisons for the surplus population
- Rumblings from the International Criminal Court
- The Obama stimulus appears too small
- What to do about the center that will not hold?
- Troubled by memories of a rebellious past
- The unemployment rate continues its climb
- On the home front
- America’s whining reactionaries
- Jon Stewart rips Santelli and CNBC
- GM on the brink?
- The market fundamentalist school of falsification
- Others more evil than Dubya!
- Reverse migration and deglobalization in South Eas...
- Dunning the bereaved
- The rent-seeker ideology
- President Obama takes care of his constituents
- The Dow closes below 6800
- The global economic crisis threatens the European ...
- Happy Days resurrected?
- Santelli’s losers
- Rick Santelli’s phony populism
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- A black woman castes her vote for McCain-Palin?
- A few caveats to consider before November
- A natural right of 'mere life'
- A new silent majority?
- A way of life soon to be lost
- Change we can believe in...
- Coal is the way to go
- Enforcing 'civility' in Pittsburgh
- Fear mongering as a political tool
- From Hooverville to Bush Bayou
- Have the culture wars taken a violent turn?
- Hopelessness and Barack Obama
- Is a new populist movement emerging?
- Jürgen Habermas addresses the crisis
- Locked-in tight?
- Obama the Excellent
- Obamaland
- Obamanomics: Wrongheaded?
- Only the exceptional states need apply
- Poverty and the economic crisis
- Presenting soup kitchen America
- Reenter Keynes
- Santelli's losers
- The 'Empire & War Party' retains control of the Presidency
- The coming civil turmoil....
- The consumer's republic
- The Democratic Party on the road to executive power
- The Nader Moment
- The Nader moment revisited
- The Obama administration fears opposition
- The Rustbelt
- The Rustbelt and the Moneybelt
- What does Israel's terrorist state wish to crush?
- What's right with this picture?
- Which candidate will get my vote
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