Credit Where Due, Geithner Credit Where Due, Geithner
What Tim Geithner should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.
Mar 16, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Dodd’s Not-Independent Consumer Watchdog Dodd’s Not-Independent Consumer Watchdog
Dodd's bill puts a strong cop on the beat. But the same regulators who've already failed us would look over its shoulder.
Mar 15, 2010 / Kai Wright
There’s No ‘Compromise’ Protection Against Predators There’s No ‘Compromise’ Protection Against Predators
Good riddance to the Senate's bipartisan effort to build a weak Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
Mar 14, 2010 / Kai Wright
Iceland Busts the Banksters Iceland Busts the Banksters
Icelanders have become "the world's first rebels against the idea of clearing up after the mess made by a reckless private bank."
Mar 7, 2010 / John Nichols
The Contractor Scofflaws The Contractor Scofflaws
Obama is on the brink of bringing significant reforms for workers to government contractors.
Mar 4, 2010 / William Greider
In Defense of Deficits In Defense of Deficits
A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.
Mar 4, 2010 / Feature / James K. Galbraith
Calling Ron Paul! Calling Ron Paul! Fed Alert! Fed Alert! Calling Ron Paul! Calling Ron Paul! Fed Alert! Fed Alert!
Chris Dodd is way wrong to think that consumers could be protected by the Fed. It's as crazy as thinking chickens could be protected by foxes.
Mar 2, 2010 / John Nichols
No Banker Left Behind No Banker Left Behind
Banks do have a license to steal. There is no other way to read Tuesday's report from the New York state comptroller that bonuses for Wall Street financiers rose 17 percent to $20....
Feb 24, 2010 / Robert Scheer
Extend Unemployment Insurance Now Extend Unemployment Insurance Now
This week will be a critical one for millions of Americans surviving on unemployment insurance.
Feb 22, 2010 / Peter Rothberg
Glenn Beck Dodges Incoming Plane at CPAC Glenn Beck Dodges Incoming Plane at CPAC
As CPAC opened its annual convention last Thursday, the same day that computer engineer Joe Stack flew his Piper Cherokee into an IRS office in Austin setting it ablaze, the consen...
Feb 22, 2010 / Leslie Savan