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The Nation's Meltdown 101
As the world faces economic collapse and citizens struggle to figure out where to go from here, The Nation has assembled this special section as an online guide to the crisis, drawing largely from Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover (Nation Books) by Katrina vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation.
Aggregating highlights from Nation events and providing an overview of the crisis, this page will feature videos from public forums; relevant podcasts; and a curated selection of The Nation's most illuminating articles about the financial meltdown.
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Meltdown: Economic Collapse and Recovery
Nation Audio : A panel discussion on the economic meltdown with Joseph Stiglitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Jeff Madrick and Christopher Hayes.
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Ten Things You Can Do to Stay in Your Home
Advice and resources for preventing or fighting foreclosure.
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Fixing the Fed
William Greider: To restore the nation's broken financial system, Washington must reform the Federal Reserve.
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A Bank Bailout That Works
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Banks have polluted the economy; it's a matter of equity and efficiency that they clean it up.
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Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
Sarah Anderson & Sam Pizzigati: Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.
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William Grieder on 'A New Way Forward'
Bill Moyers Journal : The Nation's William Greider discusses where he believes the new voice against Wall Street interests will come from.
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How to End the Recession
Robert Pollin: The economy needs a shot of public investment--and if it's green, the payoff will be greatest.
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All of Them Must Go
Naomi Klein: As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.
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Is This the Big One?
Jeff Faux: The blowback of housing deflation on our overleveraged financial markets has seriously constricted the flow of credit--the lifeblood of the world's largest debtor economy.
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Trust But Verify
James K. Galbraith & William K. Black: Bernanke is asking for trust he has not earned. Here's a shortlist of conditions to make this a credible deal.
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Throwing Good Money...
Nomi Prins: Instead of facilitating mergers, we should be reregulating the banking industry and enforcing real transparency.
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The Subprime Swindle
Kai Wright: How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.
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Beyond Rubinomics
Jeff Madrick: If we stimulate the economy and maintain high rates of growth, higher wages will create the savings required for investment.
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