As President Obama packs for China, I thought I'd show him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency.
Ten years ago, our country made the fateful decision to repeal Glass-Steagall. I predicted then what is happening now in the economy. But unfortunately, only seven other Senators stood with me.
Galbraith reportedly got himself a $100 million piece (or more) of a Kurdish oil field. Hall's oil trading scams are picking our pockets by driving up the price of oil just enough for him to make a killing.
Earlier this week, we announced a new service, The Cost Savings Guy, which has the potential to change the fortunes of small businesses and nonprofits that are struggling to stay afloat.
Instead of perpetuating the federal government's over-subsidization of homeowners and under-subsidization of renters, Congress should work to develop a housing policy that helps, not hurts, low-income households.
Far be it for the industry to play it straight, to simply state that price as currently constituted has nothing to do with market dynamics of supply and demand.
I worked at Bear Stearns in the late 1980s and remembered amiable newcomer Ralph Cioffi -- just acquitted -- to be Bear Stearns' most talented and successful salesman of mortgage-backed securities.
Sources close to God reported Thursday that the Supreme Being was angered at recent comments by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that's he's just a banker "doing God's work."
It's fair to say that environmentalists have just about always considered America's utility companies the bad guys. But these days there seems to be a new kind of utility -- and utility CEO -- emerging.
While many proponents of the estate tax argue that it is the most progressive tax in the tax code, the fact is that it produces less than 1 percent of annual federal tax revenue while hurting family businesses.
In July, a temp worker died from falling into a vat of chocolate. But the owners of the plant, Lyons & Sons, never had a license to make chocolate. Ultimately, one business is really culpable here: Hershey.
We must use the principles of the New Deal, but create something both broader and permanent: a universal job guarantee available through the thick and thin of the business cycle.
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