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Progressive Breakfast - 10/30/2009

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Bill Scher is traveling; he will return Monday. Thursday's news that the nation's gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third...

From Crash to Meltdown in 80 Years

It's was 80 years ago this week that the Crash of 1929 kicked off the Great Depression. Not quite 79 years later, the fall of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, sent the stock market into a meltdown precipitated by the crises of such Wall Street Giants as Bear...

Wall Street Pukes On Our Shoes

At the New Economy Conference, Leo Gerard of the United Steelworkers just said that deregulating Wall Street was like leaving a 3 year old in a candy store unsupervised for a day. When you come back the kid is stuffed full of candy, candy falling out of the pockets --...

Progressive Breakfast - 10/29/2009

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Building The New Economy Conference Today LIve audio stream and Twittering of the Building The New Economy conference, featuring, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Gov. Ed...

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