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One More Con on Working People

…longtime critic of “disastrous unfettered free trade deals,” said in a lengthy statement that “targeted tariffs can be a powerful tool to stop corporations from outsourcing American jobs . ….

Simon Johnson on Barclay’s and markets

Simon Johnson at Baseline Scenario points to basic fraud on the business practices for LIBOR: The behavior at Barclays has all the hallmarks of fraud, pure and simple – intentional…

The economy , markets and inflation

Demand destruction. Demand destruction. Demand destruction. That is all one seemed to hear from analysts and managers for months as food and energy prices soared. But now that we are…