Europe Freezes Out Goldman Sachs
Blankfein doing God’s work Shocked by past deals with Italy and Greece, governments are excluding the Wall Street bank from sovereign bond sales. The Daily…
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Ex-Goldman Sachs Hack, TARP Guru, Wants Your Social Security
Jason Linkins Huffington Post Remember Neel Kashkari? Back during the financial crisis, Kashkari sat at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Stability, where he was…
Hungary Minister: IMF Talks Break Off on Lack of Austerity
Wall Street Journal BUDAPEST (Dow Jones)–Hungary’s talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union broke off Saturday as the government refused to implement…
The 18 States Facing the Most Brutal Austerity Cuts
Gus Lubin Business Insider Even the sober Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says 46 states are facing a Greek-like crisis. These state governments must inaugurate…
IMF is Coming for Your Social Security
Dean Baker TruthOut A few years back, there was a fear in some parts about black UN helicopters that were supposedly taking part in the…
Is the IMF about Ready to Muscle U.S. Taxpayers?
Robert Wenzel Economic Policy Journal I smell a rat. The IMF has long been a bought, and paid for, muscle arm of the U.S. government…
IMF Pushing Austerity for Americans?
Yahoo News WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged the United States to rein in its ballooning budget deficit without putting the…
Strikes Continue in Spain Over Austerity Measures
Spain Metro Strike Continues Over Austerity Reuters A strike by Metro workers snarled traffic for the third day in Madrid on Wednesday and unions said…
Greeks Strike to Protest Austerity Plans
By NIKI KITSANTONIS AND MATTHEW SALTMARSH – New York Times ATHENS — Public services in Greece ground to a halt, and transportation was disrupted on Tuesday as thousands…
G20 Brings Green Zone to Toronto
The Excavator Excessively armed thugs parading through the streets, military checkpoints at traffic lights, police helicopters hovering over the city, a long chain-link fence around…