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• The F Word: Bonuses for Bosses at Killer Corporations?

  April 4, 2011

  Eleven workers dead, untold volumes of sea-life poisoned and more than 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the sea. If that's what a historically good safety record looks like at TransOcean, I'd hate to see a bad year.

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• The F Word: Of Breadlines and Banks

  July 13, 2009

  President Obama was elected with a large enough mandate for fundamental change that he could forge a fresh social compact, lock in place a new set of mutual obligations and rewrite the relationship between the state and the populace. The need for change is obvious. In 2008 the official poverty line stood at a shameful $10,590 for a single person and $21,203 for a family of four. If Obama rewrites the social contract and all the rest, he might be able contain the calamity of the 2008 economic collapse. "But if he fails," as Sasha Abramsky writes, "that calamity will haunt the next several decades..."

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• The F Word: Bankers Party And The Rest Of Us Get The Hangover

  June 10, 2009

  There was plenty of partying on Wall Street this Tuesday as the lid on banker pay was lifted. Once government bail-out money -- TARP funds -- is returned, government control of banking practices (read: big salaries) disappears. And that's exactly what's been done by a bunch of the biggest banks... Pay back quick. No TARP, no salary caps.

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