December 2010
10 posts
In summary...
The difficulty in finding buyers should have been a warning signal: If the market won’t buy a product, maybe the bank should stop making it.
Never has a simple sentence been written to explain the free-market failings in the banking sector that are at the base of our current fiscal woes.
via ProPublica
Preview of Next Year
International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010
This bill passed the Senate only to see defeat in the House. It was voted down by House republicans that were told this bill was related to abortion politics. There is nothing about abortion in the bill. It’s an attempt to classify underage marriage as a violation of human rights. It’s an attempt to protect the...
“Barack Obama ordered his first drone strike against Pakistan just 72 hours after...”
– FATIMA BHUTTO at Tom Dispatch via Mother Jones
