Essays, etc.:

• The Future of Capitalism, Financial Times, FT.com, 2009.


• Robert Dreyfuss, The Freeman Affair: Is the Israeli Lobby Running Scared? Or Killing a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys, Tomgram, TomDispatch.com, 15 March 2009.


• Danny Schechter, Is the Hunter Being Captured by the Game? How the Permanent Power Structure Is Trying to Stop Obama, The Smirking Chimp, 16 March 2009.


• Sneezing Panda.


• Scott Horton, The Heirs of Father Coughlin, No Comment blog at Harper's Magazine Harpers.org, 17 March 2009.


• Dave Lindorff, Who's calling the shots now? The Death of American Empire, The Smirking Chimp, 18 March 2009.


• Simon Johnson, Causes of a Great Inflation: Tunneling for Resurrection, The Baseline Scenario, 19 March 2009.


• Robert Freeman, Does America Face the Risk of a Fascist Backlash?, AlterNet.org, 19 March 2009.


• Michael Lewis, Mass Hysteria Over AIG Obscures Simple Truths, Bloomberg.com, 20 March 2009.


• Frank Rich, Has a ‘Katrina Moment’ Arrived?, The New York Times, 22 March 2009.


• Henry Blodget, Geithner's Five Big Misconceptions, The huffington Post, 23 March 2009.
  
  I am certain that Mr. Geithner does not hold these misconceptions personally; rather, I believe that these misconceptions are being foisted on the ignorant (and powerless) taxpayers by public officials and others (establishment propagandists) to the benefit of the owners and creditors of the banks and who would otherwise experience catastrophic (to them) losses if the ordinary rules and practices that apply to everybody else were followed.


• Paul Krugman, Financial Policy Despair, The New York Times, 23 March 2009.


• David Barboza, China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar, The New York Times, 23 March 2009.
  
  Andrew Batson, China Takes Aim at Dollar, WSJ.com, 24 March 2009.
  
  In his press conference 24 March 2009, President Obama said explicitly he does not think the world needs a new international reserve currency. I expect such a currency will emerge despite U.S. objections within a generation, perhaps by 2030 or 2040.


• Barry Ritholtz, The Annual Existing Home Sales MSM Errata, The Big Picture, 24 March 2009.
  
  A widespread misinterpretation of economic statistics by the mainstream media is no accident.


• Mark Danner, US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites, The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 6, 09 April 2009.