mic9aelSenate fails to agree on student loan rate freeze: The U.S. Senate held two votes Thursday on measures to ensure student loan rates for millions of college students do not double in July--and at the conclusion of the legislative action, the issue remained exactly where it began: stuck. (washingtonpost.com)
MATT TAIBBI - The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party - "Sooner or later, people are going to clue into the fact that 1 or 2 big banks, acting with unscrupulous "preferred investors," can at least temporarily prop up or topple just about anything they want..," (rollingstone.com)
Granholm: Republicans’ voter suppression drive is ‘treasonous’ - “Why do they do this? Seems kind of obvious. When you don’t have the winning ideas, you change the rules of the game. And when you can’t convince voters that you are the best choice, you restrict their ability to choose.” (rawstory.com)
Barbara Ehrenreich - Preying on Poverty: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks - Gordon Gekko, the infamously cutthroat capitalist and lead character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, captured the heady years of the 1980s with a single, indelible line: Greed is good. (tomdispatch.com)
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