Last night I stumbled upon a series of Wikipedia pages on the sub-prime mortgage crisis, financial crisis, global financial crisis, and economic crisis of 2007-2008.
The pages so far are OK, but I think the denizens of EP can add a lot to those pages (and I wouldn't be surprised if many of you already have). What I am especially worried about are attempts by wrong-wingers to rewrite certain parts, as I gather from the discussion pages has happened already. So, I appeal to everyone here to look at those Wikipedia pages every once in a while, and help keep them accurate.
Also, I recall that there was an article in August of last year that gave the details of the first sub-prime losses occuring in April in Germany, or Austria. Also, someone needs to add the exact details of the two Bear Stearns funds.
The best part of the page on financial crisis is that it references and lonks to the page I wrote on financialization in November 2007 - which I invite everyone to check out, though a few things have been changed :)
Comments
H-1B entry
The immigration attorneys and lobbyists, other interested parties constantly try to change that entry so is it not factual on the law.
This wouldn't surprise me.
On the H-1Bs
Should we include statistical information of companies who have used these things? Is it widely available, for example, on how many H-1s are employed by Microsoft?
H-1B, not H-1
H-1 is an older Visa, not around since 1990. Yes, but simply getting the fact they are paid significantly less have a 20% fraud rate and employers do not have to consider a US worker before using one is hard to keep in wikipedia.