World-News

By Paul Craig Roberts

Those dependent on Social Security and Medicare are finding that these programs are being blamed for budget deficits caused by multi-trillion dollar wars of choice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30822.htm



On the Road to Catastrophe

By Mike Whitney

Uncle Sam-who had to bail out the whole freaking financial system after the last subprime fisasco-is now ''your friendly subprime auto dealer''?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30823.htm



When a Congressman Becomes a Lobbyist, He Gets a 1,452% Raise (on Average)

By Lee Fang

What s the best way to ''buy'' a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30817.htm

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Four Years After Wall Street Crash, Regulation of Financial Markets Is Still Spotty

Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: ''Almost four years after America s financial near-collapse, regulators are now empowered to police financial markets as never before. Yet some of the most important rules to curb Wall Street s bad behavior have yet to take effect and could be watered down.... [O]nly about 33 percent of the new rules to rein in Wall Street are in force, according to the Davis Polk law firm, which specializes in regulation and puts out a monthly report on Dodd-Frank.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8964-four-years-after-wall-street-crash-regulation-of-financial-markets-is-still-spotty



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