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Latvian Meltdown: Sweden Gets €3bn

By alex.foti

ECB lends Sweden €3bn
By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt, Joshua Chaffin in Brussels,and Robert Anderson in Stockholm, June 11 2009 03:00
The European Central Bank has acted to head off a financial crisis in the Baltics, providing Sweden’s central bank with a €3bn loan in a confidence-boosting move amid growing fears over Latvia’s economy.
The ECB move [...]

Financial Fools Day: Let’s Make the Fools Pay!

By alex.foti

G20 Meltdown,  April 1st 2009
http://www.g-20meltdown.org
Come to London’s biggest ever street party!
On Financial Fools Day, The City of London will form the backdrop for the biggest mobilisation of the people since more than a million marched against the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Thousands and tens of thousands
are expected to take to the streets to [...]

The Meltdown Explained (in Comics!)

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Jobs with Justice and the Institute for Policy Studies put the Economic Meltdown Explained with solid social democratic solutions.  If only we can could get a radical version from Phoebe Glockner.  Or Alan Moore and Alex Ross. Our two favorite jokes:

“How many stockbrokers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to remove the lightbulb [...]

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