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Open Letter to Secretary Paulson - Contribute Your Own Fortune to the Bailout

For Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson's role in the swindling of our tax dollars with the 700 billion dollar bailout to the Wall Street crooks, Ralph Nader sincerely requests Hank to pitch in and ease the burden on the taxpayer.


The financial economy and the real economy

This extraordinary capacity to finance not on past wealth but on the present value of future anticipated cash flows is at the core of America's dynamic approach to wealth creation” - Edelstein, R., and Paul, J.M. Europe needs a new financial paradigm. Wall Street Journal Europe June 12-13, 1998. Quoted in The Fisherman and the Rhinoceros.

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Engineering Students Talk Trash

The goal of their recycling project? Jobs for Haitians

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Worldwide Financial Fiasco

Markets around the world hammered by credit crunch as Governments move to secure bank deposits

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Bush's Concerns Over Voter Fraud Led to Iglesias's Firing

President George W. Bush and Karl Rove, the former White House political adviser, both appear to have helped orchestrate the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias after receiving numerous complaints from Republican activists that the federal prosecutor would not pursue charges of voter fraud, according to a report on the U.S. Attorney purge released Monday by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.

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Why Media Is a Big Election Issue

Canada is about to remake the way you get your information.

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Native Radio Building Community

For many communities — especially the country’s Native American tribes — radio still promises a way to spread news, share stories and support a cultural or regional identity.

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Main Street Before Wall Street

Events of the past few weeks have exposed the danger of a financial system devoted to reckless speculation that produces nothing of real value and, ....

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The Local Community Radio Act will increase local voices, choices

This fall, Congress has the opportunity to expand local radio choices for people in cities and towns across America by passing a single...

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