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The "Populists" Are Right About Wall Street

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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How has a popular Democratic president with a convincing electoral mandate failed to translate the opportunities of recent events into the "change" for which voters clamored?

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Pendulum Swings Against Business, Banks, and Bonuses

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anybody who hasn't been living in a cave knows how bonuses got a bad name: excess and greed in large business. But what those of us in small business, where a bonus is a reward for a job well done?

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If We 'Kill the Rich', Don't We Kill the Dream?

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York is the national epicenter of ostentation and consumerism. Now those qualities are considered tasteless. Wealth has become a dirty word.

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Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Tim Geithner's actions throughout his career, including his time as Treasury Secretary, are proof that the toxic thinking that got us into this mess is part of his DNA.

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AIG Bonus Money is Kid's Play: Literally

Jennifer Delaney | Posted 11.17.2011

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If AIG were to donate the 418 bonuses to charity, it would be a brilliant preemptive PR move to neutralize its current out of touch public persona. Here's what the money could provide.

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Geithner's Last Stand

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

The indignation over AIG will serve a useful purpose if it focuses public attention on the much larger issue of the failure of the entire approach that Tim Geithner and Larry Summers are using to rescue the banking system.

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A Real Simple Solution to the AIG Bonus Mess

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rather than allow these bonuses to remain intact or to take them away outright, how about deferring them until the companies and their troubled business units turn their financial fortunes around?

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Capitalism and Moral Sentiments

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fascinating thing about this Wall Street greed is that it is so deeply ingrained that neither the bankers themselves nor our economic leadership understands just how disgusting and dangerous it is.

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Defining Extravagance Up

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's admirable that our leaders now want to be frugal with our money but let's remember what the taxpayers themselves have been buying with money not rendered unto Uncle Sam.

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The Politics of the Populist Moment

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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I appeared on ABC's World News Tonight and ABC's Nightline last night about the economic meltdown. You can watch the Nightline clip here. As I've w...

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90% Tax? Now, We Really are Screwed

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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The frantic passage of the Populist Rage Tax was a new low in the US government's response to this crisis.

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Smoking Gun Points to Geithner

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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How long will and should Obama continue to defend Geithner in the face of the smoking gun proof of what he knew about AIG and when he knew it?

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Goldman Sachs, Obama, Money

Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011

Have things changed so dramatically that Obama will have room to dump his biggest campaign contributers overboard? That question will be answered in the coming weeks.

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AIG Counter-Party Payments Worse than Bonuses

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the key points of the AIG counter-parties list finally sink in to the American population, there is going to be a run on torches and pitchforks at local hardware stores.

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Will the Politicians Give Back Their AIG Bonuses?

Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. President and members of Congress, it's time to give back AIG's political contributions.

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Bernanke Dodges the Bullets

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

By fueling anger over AIG bonuses, Bernanke is playing a very old game. By aiming at AIG, he is distracting public anger from the Federal Reserve. He is protecting his reputation and legacy.

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A Second Act for Spitzer?

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is an attorney who can get to the bottom of our current financial crisis and lay the blame and guilt at the foot of the culprits. Eliot Spitzer, phone home.

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It's Gut-Check Time

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

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Right now Obama is trying to walk on an incredibly narrow line with no safety net beneath, but this is gut-check time: he has to decide which side he's on.

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Obama "Takes Responsibility" for AIG? Getting Mad Is Not Getting Even...

Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's good to hear Obama take responsibility, but after the previous "I screwed up" and a few more "buck stops here," the value of that buck's worth might soon diminish.

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Creep of the Week: AIG Bonus Grantor Edward M. Liddy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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AIG Chairman Edward M. Liddy gets the Creep of the Week award for his stunning, overwhelming, dumbfounding display of cluelessness.

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House of Chutzpah, House of Cards, or Back to the Future Again

Jessica Catto | Posted 05.25.2011

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The disgust burbled up at the callousness of Enron; it has been simmering ever since, and with AIG it has boiled over.

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Geithner Gives Away 2 Trillion While Country Screams About A Few Hundred Million At AIG

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.25.2011

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What Geithner is doing right now is similar to how a magician works. First he gets your attention on one thing "look, outrageous bonuses at AIG", then he does his trick while you're watching what he wants you to watch.

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Tax the Bonuses

Kirk Stambler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid all the hand-wringing about whether or not the government has the power to stop AIG from paying bonuses to the very people who helped precipitate...

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The Death of a Brand

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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AIG's predicament will be studied for years to come in marketing and communications classes. When the president of the United States starts bad mouthing your brand, it's not going to survive.

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Taxing Bonuses: A Matter of Fundamental Fairness

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Giving out $18 billion in bonuses at a time when ordinary Americans have seen their life savings collapse is outrageous. To give out these bonuses using federal bailout money is over the edge.

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