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Harper presents fearmongering with the budget
Budget 2011: We need a mature debate about the deficit, debt, and the merits of tax cuts.Why Stephen Harper loves his deficit
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Debt by 1,000 tax cuts: An election special
Friday, April 15, 2011Stephen Harper knows he can't come right out and reveal his radical agenda to downsize government. But if he gets his majority, expect Harper to slash and burn on the pretext that...
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Financial crisis as a way of life
Thursday, July 14, 2011From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to the next. The financial panic of 2008 has morphed into the era of financial...
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What financial crises teach us about economic democracy
Monday, August 15, 2011The left can learn an important lesson from the financial upheavals that are becoming routine these days. As elites scramble to confront each successive crisis, they prove by...
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Neoliberal economics is not an immovable object
Market forces rule only if we let them. What financial crises teach us about economic democracy
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The European financial meltdown -- next in a continuing series
Monday, September 19, 2011As I write, the Europe's sovereign debt crisis is a ticking bomb. Unprecedented events are happening at a mind-spinning pace. In the middle of last week the BRICS (Brazil,...
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Occupy Wall Street asks the big economic questions
Thursday, October 6, 2011"We Are The 99 per cent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 per cent," say the Occupy Wall Street protesters. This grassroots protest started on Wall...
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Occupy bailout. Canadian banks got billions in help
Tuesday, November 15, 2011Critics spend a lot of time telling Canadians that they should disregard the Occupy movement. They claim that the sins of Wall Street didn't happen here, so Canadians have no...
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Europe trashed: The coming austerity implosion is a scary precedent
Tuesday, December 13, 2011World leaders are doing their best to provoke a global economic downturn of epic proportions. Of course, it is politically hazardous for leaders to admit this. Democratic...
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EU austerity implosion will be a scary precedent
The EU economic plan will leave it in tatters.Europe trashed: The coming austerity implosion is a scary precedent
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Just say no to corporate greed: The case of Iceland
Tuesday, February 28, 2012Capitalism is looking pretty mean these days. No amount of profit is enough, and no level of collateral damage to get that profit is unreasonable. And when capitalism on...
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How the Anglo punditocracy demonizes Quebec's student protests
Tuesday, May 29, 2012Anglo Canada is sticking its fingers in its ears and humming a happy song. Many in the English-speaking punditocracy and media (or perhaps mediocracy?) are doing their best to...
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Canada's superiority complex: Are our banks really better?
Thursday, August 9, 2012Concerned about the increasing frequency of banking crises? Don't worry. Bad things can't happen to banks in Canada.Certainly we are not Spain. Or Iceland. Or Ireland. Well,...
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Economists, conflicts of interest and a plea to journalists
Friday, February 15, 2013When your doctor prescribes medication, you need to trust that you are getting the best, unbiased medical advice possible. If those pills just happened to be sold by the...
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Theatre of the Fiscally Absurd: Auditions now open to run government finances
Wednesday, October 16, 2013Have you ever considered a career on stage? Do you like to manipulate peoples' emotions to make them fear catastrophe and then worship you when you save the day? Perhaps you...
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Are you voting for policies that hurt you? Neoliberal polices and your...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.Another federal election is coming, and the promises are gearing up. But...
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NOW Magazine takes a stand; will continue to generate revenue through...
Meghan MurphyIn a touching love letter to capitalism, Alice Klein, editor of NOW, a magazine whose survival depends, in large part, on revenue from prostitution advertisements, proclaims the...
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NOW Magazine takes a stand; will continue to generate revenue through...
Meghan MurphyIn a touching love letter to capitalism, Alice Klein, editor of NOW, a magazine whose survival depends, in large part, on revenue from prostitution advertisements, proclaims the...
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