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Democrats seek progressive overhaul of the U.S. financial system
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Progressives give up trying to convince Biden on personnel, shift to policy
Some progressives tell Axios they believe the window for influencing President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet selections has closed, and they’re shifting…
Bitcoin’s rebound: 3 reasons this time is (sort of) different
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It is widely tipped that US president-elect Joe Biden will nominate Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary – one of the…
From here on our recovery will need more than fiscal policy, it’ll need redistribution
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The Economy of Greece
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Facebook’s Authoritarian Money Grab
“Don’t be surprised,” said Terence Ray, one of the hosts of the Whitesburg, Ky.-based podcast “The Trillbillies,” “if Mark Zuckerberg…