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FYI: AIG’s new money deal

…on their debt obligations. I would ask: Is AIG the linchpin to assuring the financialization of our economy is extended well beyond Bush’s and prior neo-liberal economic policy hawks (DLC,…

US Legislators Profiting from War? Say it ain’t so, Joe

…Iraq war began, Republican and Democratic lawmakers—both hawks and doves—had between $74.9 million and $161.3 million invested in companies under contract with the Department of Defense. Our esteemed colleagues have…

…beast. The Fed chairman delivered (mostly) on a) but failed to give rate-hawks much ammunition as his view of the economy’s future policy was mostly balanced. But markets are still…

…it is against Britain’s interests to create a precedent for unilateral military action.” AB Update: Many “liberal hawks” on Iraq find solace in the fact that Tony Blair is in…