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Seeds of Destruction: How the economy was wrecked by the politics of deregulation in Florida
(Counterpunch) In a series of reports, The Miami Herald discloses the astounding facts behind the $7 billion fraud of Stanford Financial. An absence of regulators. Shredded documents. Bags of cash air… more →
Alan Farago
Seeds of Destruction: How the economy was wrecked by the politics of deregulation in Florida
alanfarago wrote 3 months ago: (Counterpunch) In a series of reports, The Miami Herald discloses the astounding facts behind the $7 … more →
Learning How to Survive in a Depression From "Weeds": Television, the American Landscape and the New Economy
alanfarago wrote 4 months ago: (Counterpunch) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Sunday said he engineered the central bank … more →
Principle over Principal, An Unblinking View From the Rabbit Hole
alanfarago wrote 4 months ago: In a sign of how perilous the national economy is, The New York Times favors broadly reducing princi … more →
Bailing out the Land Speculators: The transformation of Charlie Crist
alanfarago wrote 5 months ago: (Counterpunch) As Democrats approach a filibuster proof US Senate, every race will be a heated battl … more →
The National Ponzi Scheme: trolling the wreckage
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alanfarago wrote 8 months ago: It is now clear how the “ownership society” was part of a Ponzi scheme that skimmed the … more →
The Face of Philanthropy in Florida The Story of Leonard Abess
alanfarago wrote 9 months ago: (Counterpunch) In his first speech to Congress, President Obama briefly bonded with popular outrage … more →
GOP Conspiracies on Who Crashed America: Economy without escape routes
alanfarago wrote 10 months ago: (Counterpunch) My Republican friends are all trending toward Conspiracy Theories to explain what hap … more →
The Nail Gun Bailout: Shovel-ready, for what?
alanfarago wrote 10 months ago: (Counterpunch) The Obama administration is hurrying its fiscal stimulus plan. I’ve lost count … more →
After the Fall: markets without regulation
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alanfarago wrote 10 months ago: (Counterpunch) We have only a little knowledge how the federal government intervenes in financial ma … more →
The Audacity of Parkland: Florida's squandered promise
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alanfarago wrote 11 months ago: (Counterpunch) 50 million barrels of oil are being parked in tankers sitting offshore, lacking buyer … more →
Fallout from the Pass-Through Economy: Manny Diaz, Jeb Bush and the FTAA
alanfarago wrote 11 months ago: (Counterpunch) Miami Mayor Manny Diaz must feel blind-sided by the furor over his possible appointme … more →
Systematic Risk, Bailouts and a New Energy Policy: Bailouts and the New Math
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Counterpunch) The US Treasury is drawing the line on taxpayer bailouts, depending if a particular s … more →
Why Florida Can't Let Go of Sprawl: The Suburbs March On
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alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Counterpunch) Some people are burying their cash in backyards. The wealthiest developers in Miami a … more →
The Politics of Growth, the division of Florida
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Counterpunch) The US presidential campaign has only addressed in generic terms the wreckage caused … more →
The Fantasy of John and Sarah: Nothing means anything
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Counterpunch) John McCain says it plainly: he is running against the status quo, he is running agai … more →
Crimes against the state: the Florida Mortgage Crisis
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alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: The Miami Herald investigative series, highlighting massive mortgage fraud and regulatory breakdow … more →
Where's the outrage? A free market for financial criminals
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Published at Counterpunch.com) On the Wall Street Journal OPED page, James Grant– of the out … more →
Up the down staircase: Fakery, inflation and the housing market
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Published at Counterpunch.com) The British sitcom, “Upstairs Downstairs” was a comedy … more →
The radical extremists of the building industry
alanfarago wrote 1 year ago: (Published at Counterpunch.com) “No better time to buy a new home, no better place” read … more →
