Briefly: America's Financial Crisis: Week of July 5
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David Culver, ed. Evergreene Digest
Tony Auth
Abyss of Joblessness: The Economy Can't Improve Unless We Put People Back to Work, Bob Herbert, The New York Times
Economists are currently spreading the word that the recession may end sometime this year, but the unemployment rate will continue to climb. That’s not a recovery. That’s mumbo jumbo.
Get Rich Cheating: The Crooked Path to Easy Street ~ Jeff Kreisler, The Serious Comedy Site
As good an explanation as any as to why the U.S., its government, large corporations, and just about any financial institution you can name are in the financial shitter.
What Madoff Really Needs is Company, and Lots of It, Richard Adams, The Guardian | UK, in Common Dreams
Don't get Madoff, get even: Bernie Madoff may deserve his 150-year jail sentence – but he wasn't the biggest crook on Wall Street
