As our nation starts to draw down the wars overseas, over a million vets will be re-entering civilian life over the next five years -- one of the largest in our country's recent history.
This Memorial Day weekend, we are focusing on the next mission facing our war...
(233) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 10:06 AM
Tune in to The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC at 4 p.m. ET for an exclusive look at the transcripts of meetings of top Fed officials during the financial crisis from 2007-2010.
As I told you on Friday, the Huffington Post and The Dylan Ratigan Show got some significant internal...
(145) Comments | Posted February 22, 2012 | 9:50 AM
Last week, I went on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and I brought a prop -- a weird-shaped lightbulb from Firefly LED Lighting, an Austin-based green tech company. The lightbulb, by taking an approach that dissipates heat through metal sidings instead of concentrating it in the bulb...
(599) Comments | Posted February 10, 2012 | 7:06 AM
This week officials from the Obama administration, the banking regulators, and state Attorney Generals announced a settlement of claims stemming from the financial crisis. The nominal amount put forward as the cost of the settlement is $26 billion, and in return the banks will be released from civil claims on...
(116) Comments | Posted February 3, 2012 | 9:23 AM
Imagine a product so irresistible that most Americans thought they couldn't live without it. Every President talked of its importance, and it was perceived of as the key to you or your child's future. There was a limited...
(153) Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | 12:42 PM
Auction 2012 is a week long series in partnership with The Huffington Post and United Republic.
Did you know that China controls our food supply? It sounds crazy, but it's true. The food preservative "ascorbic acid", which is used to preserve nearly all the food that is on store...
(325) Comments | Posted February 1, 2012 | 1:01 PM
Auction 2012 is a week long series in partnership with The Huffington Post and United Republic.
The point of seeing a doctor -- or being one -- should be to improve health. After all, besides your mother or...
(455) Comments | Posted January 29, 2012 | 9:49 AM
This week, I'm pleased to bring you an important discussion about what we should be talking about this election season. Corruption. The Huffington Post, the Dylan Ratigan Show, and United Republic will be holding a weeklong series on the costs of our bought government. We'll look...
(490) Comments | Posted January 24, 2012 | 11:50 AM
Finally, a presidential candidate came out and honestly addressed the biggest problem in our economy, the enormous debt overhang in our mortgage market. A few days ago, Mitt Romney was at a forum in Florida talking about foreclosures, and his comments were actually refreshingly honest about our housing and banking...
(204) Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 11:24 AM
This week, I'm launching the 30 Million Jobs tour. We're taking the Dylan Ratigan Show on the road, and going all over the country to demonstrate that we are a nation flush with potential. We'll visit what I call "cradles of innovation" all over the place -- in education, health...
(591) Comments | Posted January 16, 2012 | 4:00 AM
As we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, it appears we are a far less prejudiced country than we once were. Individual expressions of racism are less tolerated than ever, we have an African-American President, and African-Americans are increasingly being accepted into executive suites. Yet when...
(458) Comments | Posted January 9, 2012 | 7:34 AM
Tomorrow night, we'll see returns from the New Hampshire primary, the second contest in the Republican Presidential nomination. Most people think of this as an election, where voters go to the polls and select their preferred candidate. But I believe, and an increasing number of viewers believe, that our political...
(266) Comments | Posted December 15, 2011 | 12:26 PM
If you haven't noticed, your fellow Americans are somewhat pissed about our political situation. No, I take it back -- they're mad as hell. Back in August, I was mad as hell too. I watched in disgust as Washington's debt ceiling debacle grew from a tremor into an earthquake --...
(82) Comments | Posted December 6, 2011 | 1:40 PM
Last week, I was talking to my friend, Landon Rowland. Landon is the kind of guy who knows what is going on in the business world. He's highly respected as a national leader in the industrial space, having run a major railroad. But he's also Chairman Emeritus of Janus Capital,...
(226) Comments | Posted November 28, 2011 | 12:20 PM
Washington, D.C. just got done with a silly drama organized around cutting $1.2 trillion from the Federal budget. Republicans and Democrats argued about whether to "go big" or "go bigger," with numbers thrown around in the trillions. Ultimately the super committee collapsed of its own weight. This is...
(245) Comments | Posted November 23, 2011 | 11:00 PM
This Thanksgiving, with national division everywhere, I'm going to be thinking about the bad guys, villains and adversaries, battles and conflict. I'm going to be thinking about my own dark side, and the suffering it can create when unacknowledged and unchecked. This is actually quite in keeping with the original...
(233) Comments | Posted November 17, 2011 | 9:20 AM
What we saw with Jerry Sandusky's interview was horrifying. I had a hard time watching it, so chilling were his words, his lack of remorse, and his lack of simple awareness of what he had done. And yet, this scandal goes far beyond a simple predator, to an entire system...
(41) Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 1:21 PM
We live in a system of legalized bribery. You and I have committed to end it. This is a monumental task that will be achieved exclusively by our ability to form a massive, singularly focused coalition. And that's what we're doing.
Like climbing Everest, a variety of resources, skills, and...
(229) Comments | Posted November 9, 2011 | 11:03 AM
Imagine a former Goldman Sachs CEO, placing massive bets on a small, distant nation. It's not that he thinks that this small country, whose economy is roughly the size of Dallas, is a good risk -- everyone knows the country can't pay back what it owes. But he's making a...
(783) Comments | Posted November 4, 2011 | 1:26 PM
The Supreme Court looms over our political landscape like a giant, immovable object. Americans have traditionally respected the court's purview, believing that it serves justice, dispassionately. Yet the most controversial decision of the last twenty five years -- Bush v. Gore -- has profoundly shaken that sentiment. And other decisions,...

(98) Comments | Posted May 26, 2012 | 4:54 PM