Michael Hudson | Counterpunch | 31 August 2012 "The pace of Wall Street’s war against the 99% is quickening in preparation for the kill. So it’s time to default. Otherwise, Wall Street will turn us into Greece. That is the financial plan, to be sure" Comments Minxin Pei | Foreign Policy | 29 August 2012 West should be worrying about China's decline, not its rise. Factors that powered the rise, including demography, disregard for environment, super-cheap labour, easy global market access, are reversing or disappearing Comments Karen Abbott | Smithsonian | 30 August 2012 Remembering the loathsome Davis Curtis Stephenson, American political power broker and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. This is the story of his rise to power and eventual conviction for rape, kidnapping, conspiracy, and murder Comments Christopher Keyes | Outside | 31 August 2012 "Armstrong was not just another cyclist caught in the middle of an established drug culture—he was a pioneer pushing into uncharted territory. On the Postal squad there was a pecking order. Armstrong got the superior treatments" Comments Andrew Haldane | Federal Reserve Bank Of Kansas City | 31 August 2012 Speech. "Modern finance is complex, perhaps too complex. Regulation of modern finance is complex, almost certainly too complex. As you do not fight fire with fire, you do not fight complexity with complexity." (24-page PDF) Comments James Pogue | Oxford American | 27 August 2012 "I work on and off as a fact-checker at the most accurate magazine in America. I think so, at least. A few months ago I wouldn’t have believed that anyone outside New York would care seven thousand words-worth about what I do there" Comments | 
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