Auction 2012

Chris Kirkham

Auction 2012: For-Profit Colleges Triumph With Weaker Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Video, Education Management Corp, Auction 2012, Tony Podesta, College, Student Debt, Kaplan University, Donald Graham, Tom Harkin, Obama Administration, Dick Gephardt, For Profit Colleges, Higher Education, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Business News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. As the Great Recession propelled millions int...

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Auction 2012: Greedy Bastards and Student Debt

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Debt, Greedy Bastards, Early Education, Education, Slidefreestyle, Student, Auction 2012, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

Like banks and oil companies, those who run our universities push the hidden risk they incur to taxpayers. It's not as obvious as what we saw with subprime home loans, but it is potentially as destructive.

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Auction 2012: How Greedy Bastards Rig Our Trade Rules

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Greedy Bastards, Rigged Trade, Slidefreestyle, Dylan Ratigan, China, Auction 2012, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

For Greedy Bastards in banking and trade, globalization is a great slogan to use for selling off American technology and pocketing the profits, while an American government stays prostrate.

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: 'NAFTA With Asia' Is Big Money's Next Goal

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Tpp, U.S. Trade Representative, Video, Lori Wallach, Auction 2012, Public Citizen, Trade, Nafta, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturing, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Trade Agreements, Job Creation, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement ...

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Auction 2012: Bought Health Care

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Greedy Bastards, Slidefreestyle, Dylan Ratigan, Health Care, Hotspotting, Auction 2012, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

What I've found is that the same incentives distorting banking, energy, education, and government are distorting our very bodies. For American health care providers, the goal isn't to get you healthy, but to get you paying.

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Paul Blumenthal

Auction 2012: How The Drug Industry Games Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Health Care Bill, Pay for Delay, Health Care for America Now, Auction 2012, Charles Grassley, Drug Industry, Lobbying, Medicare Part D, Olympia Snowe, Debbie Stabenow, Canada Drugs, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Video, Pharmaceutical Industry, Prescription Drugs, Max Baucus, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Byron Dorgan, Health Care, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Video, Energy Industry, Carbon Tax, Auction 2012, Smog, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Energy Industry Lobbying, Energy Industry Campaign Spending, Coal, Greenpeace, Ozone, Oil and Gas Lobby, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When George W. Bush overruled scientists at t...

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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Financial Services, Auction 2012, Lobbying, Lobbyists, ATM Fees, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Credit Card Rates, Bernie Sanders, Big Banks, Cramdown, Video, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bank Lobby, Banks, Financial Crisis, American Bankers Association, Brad Miller, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When Washington puts policy on the auction bl...

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Auction 2012: 30 Million Jobs and the Election

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Super PACs, Wall Street, Campaign Spending, Elections 2012, Auction 2012, 2012 Election, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

This week, I'm pleased to bring you an important discussion about what we should be talking about this election season. It's time to look into corruption in banking, energy, health care, trade, and education; to trace the money and find out what it's costing you, personally.

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