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Fed up with being fleeced, North Americans are flocking to co-operative savings societies…

It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.…

It’s funny, but has it struck anyone how amazing it is that incapitalism’s latest crisis, governments can suddenly find billions,nay, trillions of dollars to buy out the ailing banks? All withtaxpayers’ money of course.…

As we all struggle to get to grips with all the implications of the financial crisis as it unfolds, there are a couple of websites that provide good points of reference.…

It's a tangled web the hidden hand of the market weaves when it practices to deceive. There is no alternative to the alternatives…

Some random thoughts on how the crisis migrated from 'Third' to 'Second' and now 'First' worlds - and has run out of runway...…

If you suspect it is not just Wall Street that is causing the crunch, or millionaires in the US who can now save the world by paying back their tax cuts, here's another better idea.…

and save the world…

Bandaid Bandwagon…