Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
Hundreds of Economists Urge Congress Not to Rush on Rescue Plan
By Matthew Benjamin
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — More than 150 prominent U.S. economists, including three Nobel Prize winners, urged Congress to hold off on passing a $700 billion financial market rescue plan until it can be studied more closely. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
Labor unions protest in New York against bailout
Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:32pm EDT
By Christian Wiessner
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hard hats, transit workers, machinists, teachers and other labor unionists railed against the U.S. government’s proposed bailout of Wall Street on Thursday in a protest steps from the New York Stock Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
Citizens Dumping Personal Junk on Wall Street to Protest Bailout
By Sarah Lai Stirland, Wired.com
Posted on September 25, 2008, Printed on September 25, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/100230/
An e-mail that began as a rallying cry from a lone journalist to an influential circle of friends to protest the U.S. government bailout of Wall Street has ignited a national day of street protests. Some demonstrators plan to dump their rubbish in front of the bronze bull sculpture near Wall Street in downtown Manhattan Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
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