April 2012 Archive

New York Times Details Widespread Bribery in Wal-Mart Mexico and Top Executive Coverup

By Yves Smith: The Grey Lady has an amazingly detailed, must-read account of corruption at the highest levels of Wal-Mart. In 2005, Sergio Cicero Zapata, a ...

Tom Friedman on the End of America

By Marie Burns: Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, author of books and pundit wherever they’ll have him, has given up on the U.S.A. Maybe he is dismayed ...

Thomas Friedman Wants the People Who Gave Us the Housing Bubble to Have More Power

By Dean Baker: Thomas Friedman once again derides partisanship and division in his column today. (Can you really get paid at the NYT for writing the ...

Scenes From The Secret War Of The New York Times Columnists

By Jason Linkins: If you’re a regular consumer of the New York Times editorial page, you may have already noted that a sort of sub rosa ...

Contrasting Reports on State Revenues and Spending Tell Us Who’s Paying the Price for Harmful National Economic Policy

By Scarecrow: An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center ...