Fair and Unfair Attacks on Romney’s Record at Bain Fair and Unfair Attacks on Romney’s Record at Bain
That Romney laid off workers should not be treated as a bad thing. That Romney opposes a social safety net for the workers he laid off should.
Jan 13, 2012 / Ben Adler
What Will it Take to Overturn ‘Citizens United’? What Will it Take to Overturn ‘Citizens United’?
How can we stop money from running our elections?
Jan 9, 2012 / Press Room
Corporate Profits Up. Taxes Not. Corporate Profits Up. Taxes Not.
Corporate profits rose to a record $1.97 trillion in the third quarter of 2011. Corporate income tax payments did not. But it's not a matter of “Honey, I Shrunk Corporate Tax...
Jan 6, 2012 / Laura Flanders
Teddy Roosevelt Would Recess Appoint Cordray as Wall St. Watchdog Teddy Roosevelt Would Recess Appoint Cordray as Wall St. Watchdog
A majority of senators want the former Ohio attorney general to head the Consumer Financial Products Bureau. The president should use a recess appointment to make it so.
Dec 8, 2011 / John Nichols
29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes 29 Miners and Massey’s Coal Crimes
$209 million isn't enough. Revoke Massey's corporate charter.
Dec 8, 2011 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Anti-‘Too Big to Fail’ Jon Huntsman Nails Romney as Wall Street’s Man Anti-‘Too Big to Fail’ Jon Huntsman Nails Romney as Wall Street’s Man
Taking the position of former Senator Russ Feingold, former Utah governor positions himself as the anti-bankster candidate -- and a serious alternative to over-the-top corporatism ...
Nov 30, 2011 / John Nichols
Judge to SEC: Don’t Let Wall Street Off the Hook Judge to SEC: Don’t Let Wall Street Off the Hook
A federal judge’s ruling in an SEC settlement with Citigroup might strengthen regulation of the financial sector.
Nov 29, 2011 / George Zornick
California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout
There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, who usually get off with a fine and a promise not to do it again, and again and again.
Nov 10, 2011 / Robert Scheer
Nurses Prescribe a White House Rethink on Financial Transactions Tax Nurses Prescribe a White House Rethink on Financial Transactions Tax
National Nurses United and the AFL-CIO have been urging the White House to stop opposing a global financial transactions tax. It’s working.
Nov 3, 2011 / John Nichols
Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators Occupy Wall Street and the Pope Agree: It’s Time to Tax Speculators
On the streets, at the Vatican, at the G-20, in Congress and in front of the US Treasury building: The call is rising for a financial transactions tax. It will get a lot louder in ...
Oct 26, 2011 / John Nichols