Al-USA

Added Debt Won't Rescue the Great American Ponzi Scheme

Good article, I was going to say more, but enough has already been said above.

Misunderstanding the Great Recession

Good article. Mr. Hansen is one of the best writers I have come across at SA.

3 Key Steps to Fix This Fiasco

There is only 1 key step, nationalize it... And then throw the bums responsible in jail... Might take another Congress to do that however - the one that will replace the current one which will likely be voted out of office come November.

Nothing is certain, but what is certain is that I and many of my peers, for years an apolitical group, have had it... And we find ourselves with lots of company. Letting the politicians know our views was not enough, so, out with the old, in with the new.

Wall Street, 1792 - 2008?

In all due respect to the authors, the average American wage earner has seen no increase in wages, after inflation, for the last 8 years or so of this so called economic expansion.

Understandably, the masses are now furious at the proposed $700,000,000,000 bailout of America's billionaires. Their house has been "burning" for years now and now this blatant example of socialism for billionaires and capitalism for the rest of us... Let it fail, only the strong survive in a capitalist society, right?