Jack Ucciferri

On May 16, Dow Jones Newswires ran an article titled "Push For More WellPoint Political Disclosure Falls Short." And while it is true that WellPoint shareholders rejected my firm's call for more disclosure about the health insurer's political contributions, with all due respect to Mr. Kamp, he buried...

Well, Doctor, what have we got -- a Republic or a Monarchy?

A Republic, if you can keep it.

It seems ol' Ben Franklin was right. Republics, it turns out, are not so easy to keep.

From pitifully low voter turnout, to rock-bottom approval ratings for Congress...

So R. Allen Stanford, the former head of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, is officially a criminal. Prosecutors say he oversaw a $7 billion pyramid scheme and a Houston jury found him guilty of 13 counts, including wire and mail fraud and obstructing a federal regulatory...

Your retirement savings are not safe. I mean, they're way more secure right now than they would have been if Cowboy King George II had succeeded in privatizing social security back during his early-2000s Reign of War on Terror, but unless you are among the 1 percent or...

If Americans have learned one concrete thing about our financial system over the past few years, it is that we can pretty much bank on the big banks screwing us over. From "mistakenly" foreclosing on active duty servicemembers (with pregnant wives), to systematically defrauding schools,...

One thing us 99%ers seem to agree on is that we can't wait any longer to take back our democracy from the super-humanly wealthy and the fictitious persons that serve their narrow economic interests. But while struggling to occupy public places and...

Last week I sat in on a graduate seminar facilitated by the Honorable Mary Robinson. Not that you might need reminding, but she was the first female president of Ireland (1990-1997), a famously influential former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (1997-2002), and is currently one of the twelve Global...

Corporate influence over our political system is one of the concerns heard loudest from the Occupations springing up everywhere these days.

The standard corporate response to those who notice that corporate capture of politics is harming our country goes something like this: (in your whiniest, spoiled-child-complaining-to-Mom-like...