(A version of this article originally appeared in the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Newsletter.)

Finally, the depredations of capitalism are on everybody's lips.

Between a collapsing dollar, soaring fuel costs, the implosion of credit markets, and the recent, breathtaking display of rapacity by mortgage lenders and their Wall Street bac

Madison now has a second local trading system.

The striking fall of the dollar against other world currencies (-27% against the Euro over the last 2 years) has prompted many to wonder if the long-predicted collapse of the US financial empire is at