 - ACORN: ACORN Response to Senator McCains Smear Ad
 6:33pm  (3 reviews) activism, liberal-politics, economy http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&...- ACORN has worked successfully to help working class families get good home loans on fair terms from legitimate banks and has fought vigorously against predatory lenders who have ripped off families in our communities. These predatory loans caused the crisis.
"For more than a decade, ACORN members have held protests, released reports, and advocated for regulations to protect homeowners from predatory lenders. ACORN organizers and volunteers have been working day and night to help victims of the GOP economic meltdown to save their homes from foreclosure. In fact, ACORN has brought class action lawsuits against several predatory lenders, and has lobbied the Federal Reserve and Congress in support of regulations against predatory lending. ACORN has even been successful in convincing many lenders to treat homeowners more fairly and help families be able to make their mortgage payments and save their homes.
"Unfortunately, the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans like John McCain have blocked the sensible regulations that ACORN and others proposed that would have averted the mortgage meltdown. If John McCain thinks that community organizers caused the foreclosure crisis, he knows even less about the economy than previously thought.
"John McCain and the Republicans are desperately trying to shift the blame for the economic crisis they caused with a philosophy of deregulation and indifference to homeowners. All the grainy footage and creepy music in the world can't cancel out some simple, basic facts, and the facts about the economy are not on John McCain's side."
- Free Marketeers Rally on Capitol Hill | American News Project
- Oct 11, 10:32am
 (1 review) activism, alternative-news, capitalism, economy http://americannewsproject.com/node/145 - On October 10th, 2008, a day when the Washington Post asked if we face the "end of American capitalism," hundreds rallied at the U.S. Capitol to support free markets and deregulation. The Bush administration may be considering nationalizing banks, but members Americans for Prosperity, the group that organized the rally, cheered the slogan, "Free markets work every time, all the time."
- YouTube - Mavericks in Washington
- Oct 11, 9:16am (1 review) basketball, video, economy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQx6spIBb...
- Mavericks in Washington
- Manufacturing an Economy that Works for Working Americans | OurFuture....
- Oct 11, 8:24am (1 review) activism, politics, economy, employment http://www.ourfuture.org/makingsense/ale...
- For years, conservatives have kowtowed to the heads of big corporations, who want trade deals that pave the way for them to move manufacturing operations overseas--at tremendous cost to American workers and our economy. John McCain wants to continue this trend, vowing to "remove barriers to free trade," even though a majority of Americans view foreign trade as a threat to our economy, according to a CNN poll. [CNN/ Opinion Research Corporation] Only one in four Americans share McCain's view that free trade offers the U.S. an opportunity for economic growth. Progressives can offer Americans the choice they want by securing America's place in the global economy through fair trade and a revitalization of America's critical manufacturing sector.
- Death Tax Myths, Estate Tax Realities | OurFuture.org
- Oct 11, 7:51am (1 review) alternative-news, politics, economy, taxes, myths http://www.ourfuture.org/makingsense/ale...
- The Politics
Americans accept the need for taxation, but they don't like taxes. And they never have--remember the Boston Tea Party? That's why Americans are susceptible to conservative assaults on the federal estate tax. Progressives need to understand the public mood and change the conversation. Supporting a continuation of the 90-year-old federal estate tax does not mean we favor higher taxes, it means we support tax fairness.
- Keating Economics
- Oct 11, 7:24am (36 reviews) liberal-politics, conservative-politics, politics, fraud, economy http://www.keatingeconomics.com/
- The current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.
- Truthdig - Reports - It's Henry Paulson's Move
- Oct 10, 11:12am (1 review) alternative-news, government, corruption, economy, bailout http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008...
- Is Henry Paulson a crony communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.
Understanding Paulson's role in stopping -- or fueling -- the credit crisis requires a review of two axioms from Economics 101: 1) A credit crisis occurs when banks stop lending and 2) The amount banks can lend is a multiple of the capital in their vaults. Therefore, ending a credit crisis means prompting new lending -- and that means maximally increasing bank capital.
Enter Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs executive and current Treasury secretary. The bailout he fearmongered through Congress aims to waste almost a trillion taxpayer dollars buying banks' bad mortgages -- a scheme all but ensuring a disastrous outcome.
- Henry Blodget: Major New Bailout Good Move But Wont Stop Recession
- Oct 10, 10:45am (1 review) alternative-news, economy, business-news, financial-crisis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-blod...
- The crash continues to roll from one market to the next, and huge new bailout talks are underway. We're analyzing this morning's events live at Clusterstock -- please feel free to join us. We'll keep the discussion open until about 11:30 ET. Then we'll post the transcript here.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: David Horsey
- Oct 10, 4:55am (2 reviews) humor, politics, comic, cartoon, economy http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/vie...
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- What $315 Billion looks like
- Oct 9, 8:43pm (6 reviews) bizarre, money, economy http://hubpages.com/hub/315-Billion?done
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