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Puzzle No. 3139 Puzzle No. 3139

ACROSS 1 Nasty little kids, with one who tears inside out, and takes potshots. (12)

Sep 24, 2008 / Frank W. Lewis

Desperate Measures Desperate Measures

Remember the National Lampoon cover showing a puppy with a gun to its head? That's the Paulson plan.

Sep 24, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman

Bailout Increasingly Unpopular in Congress Bailout Increasingly Unpopular in Congress

The Bush Administration continues to aggressively push its Wall Street bailout plan on Congress, where it's reaching a surprising amount of resistance. Congressional Leaders in the...

Sep 24, 2008 / Ari Berman

GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform

RRepublican were divided over how to respond to an economic crisis of their own making. John McCain's economic guru, Phil Gramm, successfully deregulated the financial-services in...

Sep 24, 2008 / John Nichols

Another Alternative Another Alternative

Debt forgiveness. Intriguing. There is a better answer: Some form of debt forgiveness. If the face value of half of the debt was forgiven in exchange for some new government aut...

Sep 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Yes, Virginia There is a Crisis Yes, Virginia There is a Crisis

Yesterday, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter David Cay Johnson posted a letter urging us in the media to be adequately skeptical of the very premise driving the push for the bailout...

Sep 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Paulson’s Plan: Financial Fascism Paulson’s Plan: Financial Fascism

Henry Paulson isn't proposing the nationalization of private corporations--he wants a corporate takeover of government.

Sep 24, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bail Out People Before Bankers Bail Out People Before Bankers

Economists are widely panning Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's bailout package for lacking appropriate regulatory mechanisms to prevent another future crisis; for not providing h...

Sep 23, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Questions Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Bracket for a moment the massive and monumental questions of justice, equality, responsibility and moral hazard involved in this bailout. There are still huge outstanding question...

Sep 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Why $700 Billion? Why $700 Billion?

When I asked a Democratic house staffer recently where the $700 billion figure for the bailout came she mimed plucking it out of thin air. After today's hearing, that question is ...

Sep 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes

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