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What are the international political consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08? 
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How have child poverty levels fluctuated since the onset of the financial crisis? Unsurprisingly, the countries recording the greatest increases are those worst affected by the worldwide downturn.
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Michael Winterbottom has enlisted Russell Brand to appear in a new documentary about the financial crisis.
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During the Q&A period after Noam Chomsky gave a lecture at 1199 SEIU Union Hall located in Dorchester, MA on September 30, 2014. “Capitalist Democracy and its Prospect’s” he answered a question regarding the US Bank Bailouts rescue in 2001. Noam discussed the unfairness of the banks repaying the loans from the people money without any interest. He discussed the Public Subsidy of Corporations through IMF data that the banks subsidies are equivalent to what they earn each year. He finally discussed how people income impact political decisions and referred to the Orwellian term UnPeople to describe the largest percentage of low class people who are disenfranchised from political decisions and power.
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No flying cars. No robot maids. No cure for cancer. Are we getting anything right? The famed investor sounds off during a debate with an anarchist.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) talked about the minimum wage and the country's financial problems during a Wednesday night appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
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Argentina has now taken the US to The Hague for blocking the country’s 2005 settlement with the bulk of its creditors. The issue underscores the need for an international mechanism for nations to go bankrupt. Better yet would be a sustainable global monetary scheme that avoids the need for sovereign bankruptcy.
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Michel explains what the FLOK Society is and how it can help Ecuador to become a p2p and commons-oriented society. At the end of May the proposed policies of FLOK will be presented amongst politicians from Ecuador and the whole of South America as well as civic society.
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The financial crisis which began in 2007 prompted a number of changes in academic approaches to economics. As Mick Moran writes, however, political science has not experienced the same level of introspection, despite the crisis also offering challenges to the discipline. He argues that the reasons for this lie in the historical mission of political science and in its established intellectual practices.
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In just five years, the richest 1 percent has gained $6.1 trillion, while the average American family's net worth has barely recovered.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 both hit record highs on Thursday while the NASDAQ surged to its highest level in over 13 years. The year-end rally is expected to add a boost to the massive bonuses Wall Street is preparing to hand out this year. The largest Wall Street firms have reportedly set aside more than $91 billion for year-end bonuses. In response, a spinoff of Occupy Wall Street called The Other 98 Percent has launched a petition calling on employees of Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America to donate their bonuses to the ten million Americans made homeless by the housing crisis. We are joined by Alexis Goldstein, a former computer programmer at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank who later got involved with Occupy Wall Street and is now communications director at the group, The Other 98 Percent.
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The wealthiest 7 percent of households saw a 28 percent increase from 2009 to 2011 compared to a 4 percent decrease among the lower 93 percent, according to the report from the Pew Research Center.
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Five years after the Lehman brother's collapse and two years after Occupy Wall Street created a rupture in the pillars holding up the US Empire, the Culture of Resistance is taking hold. Civil Disobedience is becoming more mainstream, the police and surveillance state are showing signs that this culture is a real threat. Major change is in the air
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In its most recent world public opinion survey, the Pew Research Centre found that ‘international financial instability’ is considered a major threat by 52 percent of those polled was a close second, after climate change at 54 percent).
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