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Paul Krugman | British Fashion Victims
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Paul Krugman: "In the spring of 2010, fiscal austerity became fashionable. I use the term advisedly: the sudden consensus among Very Serious People that everyone must balance budgets now now now wasn't based on any kind of careful analysis."
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WikiLeaks Plans 'Major' Announcement in Europe
Raphael G. Satter and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press
"The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret US documents in history - hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of Iraq."
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How Joseph Lents Dodged Foreclosure for Eight Years and Started a Movement
Peter Coy, Paul M. Barrett and Chad Terhune, Bloomberg News
"The loan servicer, Washington Mutual Inc., tried to foreclose on his home in 2003 but was never able to produce Lents's promissory note, so the state circuit court for Palm Beach County dismissed the case."
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Clarence Thomas' Ethics Problems, Then and Now
Bruce Shapiro, The Nation
Bruce Shapiro: "Today, the Thomases' evocation of that old episode obscures an ethically challenged Supreme Court justice complicit in handing American politics over to corporations and anonymous far-right donors - that is the real scandal."
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