If you have been trying to follow and understand the financial crisis in The Grand Rapids Press or the local broadcast media, you are getting a very business-oriented perspective that largely seeks to maintain the status quo with as few changes as possible. As a point of departure, we encourage people to read some of the following critiques of the current crisis and the proposed solutions, many of which offer a progressive and/or left perspective:
The Paulson-Bernacke Bank Bailout Plan: Will the Cure be Worse Than the Crisis?
The Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda
Shattering the Glass-Steagall Act: The Bi-Partisan Origins of the Financial Crisis
Progressive Conditions for a Bailout
Wall Street and Washington: How the Rules have Changed
Wall Street and Washington: How the Rules have Changed
The Financial Meltdown Continues
Taxpayers, Congress Push Back Against Bailout
10 Things You Should Know About Bush’s Trillion Dollar Fleecing Plan
Four Simple Things to Look for in a Bailout Plan That Isn’t a Taxpayer Rip-off
Financial Crisis 101: How we got here
Related posts:
- Resources on the Financial Crisis and the Wall Street Bail Out
- Billions in Political Contributions Bought Financial Deregulation that Led to Current Crisis
- Financial Crisis or Financial Plan?
- Headlines: Obama Continues Bush Assertion of “State Secrets” in Torture Case; $9.7 Trillion Govt. Tab in Financial Crisis
- Wall Street’s Financial Influence on the “Bail Out”
Here’s another good one:
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm128