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The video rental chain's woes continue as store closures accelerate. To mock, or not to mock?
By Andrew Leonard
September 16, 2009
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Historian Niall Ferguson on why we won't be able to prevent financial crises in the future
By Alexander Jung and Thomas Schulz
September 15, 2009
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On the anniversary of a financial disaster, the president promises an overhaul of the system
By Alex Koppelman
September 14, 2009
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A year after Lehman's collapse, Wall Street is more corrupt than ever
By Robert Reich
September 14, 2009
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The urge to fiscal stimulus is like a frightened child's desperate yearning for a mother's care, says one economist
By Andrew Leonard
September 11, 2009
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Jobless claims drop again -- and this time there aren't any anomalies to explain away the improvement
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2009
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At a time when Americans are wallowing in consumer debt, let's reconsider the joys of penny pinching
By Laura Miller
September 10, 2009
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The right says the answer is rich people, not workers -- who are wealth destroyers
By Michael Lind
September 7, 2009
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A chilling new investigative film spins a yarn of real-life tragedy -- and points the finger at Gramm and Greenspan
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 2, 2009
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When the starting premise is that the State is evil, every politician becomes a meddling New Deal interventionist
By Andrew Leonard
September 2, 2009
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Ford and Toyota get As. GM and Chrysler fail. The overall economy? An incomplete
By Andrew Leonard
September 1, 2009
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War, Bush's tax cuts, TARP, the stimulus -- they all add up. But the real killer is the recession
By Andrew Leonard
September 1, 2009
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Casey Mulligan said the commercial real estate market wouldn't melt down. That wasn't his first mistake
By Andrew Leonard
August 31, 2009
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Brad DeLong takes a longer look at the Hoover-labor-Great-Depression thesis
By Andrew Leonard
August 29, 2009
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Economic historian Brad DeLong pushes back against revisionist Great Depression history
By Andrew Leonard
August 28, 2009
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An economist argues that Hoover's "pro-labor policies" turned a bad recession into the Great Depression
By Andrew Leonard
August 28, 2009
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New home sales take a big jump, while durable good orders register a healthy rise
By Andrew Leonard
August 26, 2009
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Social media applications facilitate the trivial and meaningless -- and help us stay afloat in choppy waters
By Andrew Leonard
August 25, 2009
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Scared by the $1.6 trillion deficit? I wish it were even bigger
By Robert Reich
August 25, 2009
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The paper says the government's deficit projection for 2009 "soared." Not true. It went down
By Andrew Leonard
August 25, 2009
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Tieless in Martha's Vineyard, the president reiterates his support for a "strong and independent Fed"
By Andrew Leonard
August 25, 2009
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Inflation hawks want Obama to cut off the spigot. Why aren't they focusing on the real deficit-buster: Healthcare?
By Andrew Leonard
August 24, 2009
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My fiancé and I couldn't wait to get married. Then I got laid off, and we couldn't afford it, either
By Melissa Dalton
August 23, 2009
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Stock indexes and oil prices hit new 2009 highs. Investors are feeling their oats. Too bad for the rest of us
By Andrew Leonard
August 21, 2009
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Call it the mixed signal economy. A day after discouraging numbers on jobs, the housing market leaps forward
By Andrew Leonard
August 21, 2009