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Posts Tagged American Casino

‘The Wire’ and the Bad Guys of Subprime Lending

By | 09.14.09 | 9:01 am

Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the recession’s racial divide, making the point that the hard times are hitting the black community with particular fervor. In a New York Times piece this weekend, Ehrenreich correctly pointed out that even high-income blacks were more likely than More…

Filming the Financial Crisis

By | 09.03.09 | 9:26 am

For many people, one of the confounding things about the financial crisis has been trying to grasp exactly what happened on Wall Street — and how things could have gotten so out of hand. The financial press, in many ways, hasn’t been of much help here, throwing around terms like More…