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Bernanke's Bad Teachers
Fed chair Ben Bernanke got “hooked” on Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz while he was in grad school. Following their teachings on the Great Depression, he’s been starving the real economy to avoid interfering in free markets. | Read more »
Youth of Color Resist Military Recruiting
As military recruiters target youth of color, youth organizers educate each other about risks and alternatives. | Read more »
How the Green Economy Can Promote Equal Opportunities for Women
Transforming our fossil-fuel economy to a clean-energy economy presents us with an opportunity to integrate male-dominated workplaces. | Read more »
The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High
Although you have to dig into the statistics to know it, unemployment in the United States is now worse than at any time since the end of the Great Depression. | Read more »
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What’s in a Name?
- By John Miller
- July/August 2009
- Issue 283
Part recession, part depression, today’s economic meltdown is very much a product of the large dose of economic repression that
preceded it. |
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Land Reform in Nepal
- By Ravi Bhandari and Alex Linghorn
- July/August 2009
- Issue 283
Nepal leads the land reform movement into a hopeful future. |
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No Bailout for AIDS
- By Mara Kardas-Nelson
- July/August 2009
- Issue 283
Are cuts to health care a necessary part of “fiscal reform,” or the continuation of decades of neglect? |
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