Eurozone crisis live: Greece gets more time as IMF and EU clash Guardian ...Athens given until 2016 to hit its fiscal targets...
Cold, Dark and Damp, Pockets of Misery Persist 2 Weeks Later New York Times ...Two weeks. Monday was the 14th day since Hurricane Sandy upended lives on the Eastern Seaboard, the longest two weeks of many people’s lives. Plastic bottles. Warming buses. Charging stations. These are just a few of the signposts in a changed world. Help is coming, the people are told...
Mayor Bloomberg Owes OWS an Apology firedoglake ...Continuing to think outside the box, OWS has two new initiatives: Occupy Sandy and Rolling Debt Jubilee...
Gas prices: FSA examines whistleblower's claims of 'Libor-like' manipulation Guardian ...The City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, is investigating claims by a whistleblower that Britain's £300bn wholesale gas market has been "regularly" manipulated by some of the big power companies, exploiting weaknesses that echo the recent Libor scandal...
Ring the Register: Another $15.4 Million for Disgraced ex-Citi CEO Vikram Pandit firedoglake ...If anyone deserves a $6.7 million bonus, it’s the CEO who squandered 88% of his company’s stock value...(um, that's sarcasm)
Two million jobless Americans face their own fiscal cliff if unemployment benefits expire Daily Kos ... If nothing changes between now and Dec. 29, the Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee estimate that some two million Americans will be up jobless creek without the paddle provided by these emergency extensions...
