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Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy – they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash MATT TAIBBI Posted Feb 17, 2010 5:57 AM On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast […]
MoreWho Are The U.C. Regents and Why Are They Billing Me 32 Per Cent More Than Last Year?
CNN Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Despite intense student protests, the California Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 32 percent undergraduate tuition increase over the next two years. Hundreds of students marched and chanted outside UCLA, where university officials were meeting. School officials argued that a fee increase and deep cuts in school spending […]
MoreStalled construction sites add to more blight in Brooklyn
Leading the city in unfinished buildings: BROOKLYN…. BY Ben Chapman and Elizabeth Lazarowitz NY DAILY NEWS Thursday, November 12th 2009 The city’s count of stalled construction projects in the borough has surged 42% since it began tracking them this summer, according to the Department of Buildings’ latest statistics. Brooklyn has the most stalled sites of […]
MoreAbandoned Horses Are On The Rise
By Jeff DeLong, USA TODAY Jack Noble was pretty sure what he would see when he arrived to check out reports of horses abandoned on a rural road in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in September. Noble, field operations manager for the state’s Department of Agriculture, found 11 filthy, sickly and starving horses. “They were just let […]
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