From Center for Economic and Policy ResearchBy Dean Baker ( Read more... )

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Did you ever wonder what environmental regulations the Marshall Islands had in place?

by Chris in Paris on 6/16/2010 01:30:00 AM

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Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop as Banks Go ‘Belly Up’
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks will fall and the government will nationalize more banks as the economy contracts through the end of 2009, said Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted last year’s economic crisis ( Read more... )

Bill Moyers Journal - February 27, 2009

Bill Moyers talks with economist Robert Johnson, who decodes this week's news on the bank bailout, with a hard look at the international ramifications of the plan and a discussion of why nationalization has become a flash point. [18:47] Watch Here

If you wipe out the preferreds and the bonds, though,
you know I believe the stock market will simply evaporate.
That's how critical it is. I think that we could be down
several thousand points on the wrong move...

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H/T: Soot & Ashes

Graham: Nationalizing Banks Should Be On The Table
In a gloomy segment about the financial sector on ABC'S This Week, two self-avowed fiscal conservatives said that the U.S. Government should at least consider nationalizing the country's banking system as a means of moving beyond the current lending crisis ( Read more... )

Bloomberg: Roubini Sees ‘Nowhere to Hide’ From Global SlowdownGlobal stock market declines are increasingly correlated and emerging economies will follow developed nations into a “severe recession,” according to New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini ( Read more... )

"Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Fleece the American Public: Total Market Cap of TARP Participants is $336 Billion, We Can Buy Them Out Completely: Enough with TARP and Nationalize NOW ( Read more... )