1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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It is a small measure of the dramatic financial meltdown of 2007-08 that leading representatives of western liberal capitalism ransacked the past for reference-points to convey its scale. The "mo

2. Competition for Main Street
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By William Greider Published September 23, 2008 Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have su

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...etton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the en...

4. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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... the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch exposes the failure of the world's financial architecture. Ann Pettifor, whose openDemocracy article predicted the crisis in 2...

5. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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...006]). The problem, as with Cassandras in other areas of life, was to gauge the precise timing of the global financial crisis that we knew was approaching. A vital piece of evidence emerged in Ju...