"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Steven Kyle at AmericaBlog has an excellent and easy to understand explanation of credit default swaps. They allow a pretend type of insurance to be bought and sold against mortgage backed securities. Whoever thought sellers would actually have to pay…
A triple win. A highly toxic substance, waste from coal plants, can be converted to a super durable, long-lasting, low carbon concrete. [the concrete] can capture carbon dioxide, prevent the need for toxic dump sites, and be turned into a…
Georgian Bank, which wasn’t on the FDIC list of problem banks as of June 30, failed last week. How many more banks are looming in the darkness out there that appear to be healthy but aren’t? What’s scary is that…
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From InfoShop, a major anarchist site Big media and the police have vested interests in inflating what happens at protests, either to get better ratings or to justify increased funding. Anarchists can do the same. But does this accomplish any…