• Organised crime fears cause ban on 500 euro note sales

  By Dominic Casciani Exchange offices in the UK have stopped selling 500 euro banknotes because of their use by money launderers. The...

   

• The American Empire Is Bankrupt

  This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period...

   

• The Federal Reserve Would Be Shut Down If It Was Audited

  The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional...

   

• Top Secret Credit Crisis Bailouts

  Interesting stories are stacking up again so it’s time for some economic potpourri starting with secret dealings by...

   

• The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis

  By William K. Black  As a white-collar criminologist and former financial regulator much of my research studies what causes...

   

• 20,000 banking staff to pay for bosses’ errors

  By PAUL HASTE MILLIONAIRE Royal Bank of Scotland bosses put the jobs of thousands of low-paid finance workers on the line...

   

• The Banality of Corporate Evil

  By Phil Mattera Our culture worships spunky small businesses and entrepreneurship.  Stewart Parnell epitomized that ideal...

   

• A Short History of US Government Handouts

  By Stephen Lendman Global economies are withering while Washington conceives “Financial Recovery Plan(s) from Hell,”...

   

• ‘Serial abuser’ in charge of bail-out cash

  By PAUL HASTE TAX justice campaigners accused the Treasury on Sunday of handing a “dodgy” former trustee of...

   

• VIDEO: Bailout Bait & Switch

  If there was ever proof that the federal government and the banking industry are working to protect the interest of each...

   

• Don’t Give the Banks Another $350 Billion

  By Matt Rothschild | Why in the world should we be giving the banks another $350 billion? They caused this financial crisis...

   

• We don’t need to “Rescue” this system

  Revolution | Millions of people in the U.S., the wealthiest country in the world, are homeless. People’s need for shelter...

   

• Michael Moore on the auto industry bailout

  Friends, They could have given the loan on the condition that the automakers start building only cars and mass transit that...

   

• No More Shop till You Drop

  By Ruth Conniff | Black Friday is only a day away, and it doesn’t look good for retailers. A front-page story in The...

   

• Adding New Floors to the Bailout House of Cards

  By Phil Mattera | Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have added a few more floors to their ever-expanding...

   

• WHAT BANKS, ACADEMICS, THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT MONEY

  The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but is the government’s...

   

• ‘A Fake Banking History of the United States’

  By Thomas J. DiLorenzo | Ask yourself this question: was the housing price bubble, which has burst, caused by (a) a Fed...

   

• The “Dirty Little Secret” Of the US Bank Bailout

  WSWS | In an unusually frank article published in Saturday’s New York Times, the newspaper’s economic columnist,...

   

• The Rescue Plan Needs to be Rescued

  Via Dirt Diggers Digest | Twice in the past month, the Bush Administration has sounded the alarm about the economy and pushed...

   

• THE LIST: WHAT A TRILLION DOLLARS WILL BUY

  Andrew Davis, Libertarian Party One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money: To buy everybody living in Los...

   

• Credit Card Debt: 5 Ways to Dig Yourself Out

  The Street | How do you stop digging yourself deeper into debt?  Americans carry a lot of debt, and it is easy for mounting...

   

• Most Corporations Don’t Pay Income Taxes

  By Richard Rubin | Most corporations, including the vast majority of foreign companies doing business in the United States,...

   

• Report: US using ‘money as a weapon’ in Iraq

  US program has spent $2.8 billion using ‘money as a weapon’ in Iraq AP  A U.S. Army program in which soldiers...

   

• The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve

  Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation...

   

• Profiting from Iraq’s occupation

  By Harry Cohen | The British in Basra are unpopular and mostly ineffective. The last survey of Basra residents by BBC Newsnight...