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CNBC:
Fed Has New Set of Reasons To Stay the Course on Rates
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BP and US Government 'Command Center' Guarded by Company From Afghan Embassy Hazing Scandal
Jeremy Scahill in The NationI just got off the phone with my friends Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," and her husband Avi Lewis, host of al Jazeera English's popular program Fault Lines. They are traveling around ( Read more... )

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BP's Shocking Memo
A document obtained by The Daily Beast shows that BP, in a previous fatal disaster, increased worker risk to save money. Are there parallels with the Gulf explosion?This is a story about the Three Little Pigs. A lot of dead oil workers. And British Petroleum ( Read more... )

Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion after rig explosion, coerced into signing legal waivers
According to two surviving crew members of the Deepwater Horizon, oil workers from the rig were held in seclusion on the open water for up to two days after the April 20 explosion, while attorneys attempted to convince them to sign ( Read more... )

CNBC
Banks In Peril from EU Debt Shell Game: Economist

Any assumption that the financial crisis is behind us is way off the mark, as the European Union is just shifting debt obligatoins between the public and private sector and not dealing with the undelying problem, Monument Securities Chief Economist Stephen Lewis told CNBC Friday...

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Yahoo!
US oil slick could trigger 'double-dip' recession: analystThe massive oil slick threatening the Gulf of Mexico's coastline could wreck the US economy's fragile recovery and lead to a "double-dip" recession, an investment firm warned Monday ( Read more... )