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Venezuela Eliminates 100 Bolivar Banknote
Cash crunch worsens as Venezuela weathers one of the worst economic crises in its history Venezuela pulls most popular banknote – BBC News Venezuela’s widely-circulated, oft-used 100-bolivar banknote will not be legal tender beginning December 16, 2016. Venezuelan citizens received notice of this move by the central government only a few days ago and the […]
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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 1
- May 8, 2012
- 2008 financial crisis
- academics
- Austerity
- Bank of America
- Bear Stearns
- business
- Business & Finance
- Citibank
- Continental Politics
- Debt Crisis
- Democrats
- Documentary
- Economic Crisis
- Finance
- financial crisis
- Goldman Sachs
- Great Recession
- i banking
- international finance
- investment banking
- Lehman Brothers
- leverage
- Monetary Union
- money
- mortgage crisis
- PBS
- politics
- power
- Republicans
- Video
- Wall Street
Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of the main democratic deficiencies of the American political system, the convenient marriage of money and power […]
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The Children Left Behind by the Greek Economic Crisis.
The nation of Greece is alarmed by increasingly common stories of families abandoning their children due to poverty that stems from the economic crisis gripping the Mediterranean state. The Greek economic crisis is putting an increasingly burdensome economic strain on low-income families. The Gasparinatos family put their children up for adoption after their lives had […]
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