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JPMorgan Chase’s $2 Billion Loss

The lesson of JPMorgan’s stunning $2 billion trading loss is that the banks haven’t learned their lesson, and neither have the politicians. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, can be clear as a bell when he denounces ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.8

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Obama says Romney would cut his own taxes while raising others’

PolitiFact by Molly Moorhead

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is the anti-Robin Hood. In a campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012, Obama said the Romney's economic plan would raise taxes for millions of low-income Americans while cutting them for the wealthy.

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.8

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How the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Nieman Journalism Lab by Justin Ellis

Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

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Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

New York Times by Jackie Calmes, Peter Baker

President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

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Money Unlimited

New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin

When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.0

Today's News (IND)

'Naked Short Selling'

readersupportednews.org, Rolling Stone by Matt ...

“Fuck the compliance area – procedures, schmecedures,” chirps Peter Melz, former president of Merrill ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.7

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Huffington Post, Associated Press by Tom Raum

When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

4.3

Today's Opinion (MSM)

How to Use the Internet Wisely, for Your Health and Your ...

Atlantic Monthly by Howard Rheingold

Use the following methods and tools to protect yourself from toxic bad info. Use ...

Posted by Fabrice Florin

3.9

Today's Opinion (IND)

Austerity is Sinking Economies from Europe to U.S.

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, William Black

(Multimedia) White-collar criminologist and former senior financial regulator ...

Posted by Dwight Rousu

3.7

Recent Reviews - Opinion

'White Hispanic' In Crosshairs As Conservative ...

Huffington Post

(Blog Post) George Zimmerman George Zimmerman , the self-appointed neighborhood watchman who shot and killed ...

Posted by Sally Lehrman

3.3

Money Unlimited

New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin

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3.8

I like Toobin, he's a scholar and studies the court, so I can trust that he knows the history and context of decisions.

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