The F Word: Holiday Spirit?

Laura Flanders, 12.23.2009

Author, Broadcaster, host of GRITtv

It's that familiar season, full of quaint old false beliefs. Like that crazy Santa Claus notion there's such a thing as just desserts. Who's been naug...

Where's The Plan On Foreclosures? Force Banks To Reduce Loans!

John Taylor, 12.24.2009

President and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition

The Fed needs to go on the offensive and force banks to reduce loans to reflect their real property values -- not the values based on a Wall Street Ponzi scheme that drove up housing costs.

Glass-Steagall and Insider Trading

Reese Schonfeld, 12.21.2009

Television journalist

I wish to make clear that this is purely hypothetical. If anything like this actually happened, I was not in the room. Therefore, I ask you to consider it as purely a supposition.

Low Interest Rates are Bonanza to the Banks

Alan Schram, 12.21.2009

Managing Partner of Wellcap Partners, a hedge fund based in Los Angeles

Banks have been frustrating the administration's efforts of economic revival by being reluctant to lend, and the president has been complaining about it.

Happy Holidays from America's Banks

Michael Winship, 12.19.2009

Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS

Never mind Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope. It's the audacity of the banks that takes your breath away.

Banks with Glass Walls

Cate Long, 12.17.2009

http://riski.us

We could use some banks with glass walls... Banks that don't operate like black boxes and put the entire economic system at risk with their risky trading ventures.

Credit Suisse Circumvents Iran Sanctions to Make Money

Damien Hoffman, 12.17.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Will the US strip Credit Suisse of their charter to do business in the US? Of course not. We live in the wild, wild west. If you pay a fine, you can jump right back into screwing people over again.

Republicans' Job Creation Tripe

Lawrence Mishel, 12.17.2009

President, Economic Policy Institute

The bank bailouts are now expected to cost $200 billion less than initially anticipated. When last week President Obama rightfully proposed using thes...

Time Magazine's Person of The Year Joke

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.17.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

Time Magazine's editors got a jump on April Fools Day when they named Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke its Person of the Year. Here's what Bernanke did sin...

Bring Back the Glass-Steagall Act to Break Up the MegaBanks that Caused the Crisis

Rep. Maurice Hinchey, 12.16.2009

The financial system in this country has been rigged and my new bill to re-establish Glass-Steagall will help undo the circumstances that led to this most recent collapse while helping to prevent future ones.

Why Are the Banks Not Lending More?

Pat Choate, 12.16.2009

Author of Saving Capitalism

Our leaders have chosen to shift the burdens onto the U.S. public and refuse to regulate Wall Street. It's almost as if Wall Street owns Washington.

Are Bank Executives Really Stuck in the Fog?

Rep. Edolphus Towns, 12.16.2009

Common sense should have told these gentlemen that when the President of the United States summons you to the White House, you check the weather ahead of time and plan accordingly.

The Middle Class Collapse

Les Leopold, 12.16.2009

Author, "The Looting of America"

Do the super-rich really earn their wealth? Financial wealth is a slippery concept especially as it slithers through a mountain of bailouts now running somewhere near $13 trillion.

Bank Weekend...

Bob Dowling, 12.15.2009

Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing

I haven't seen any polls on a breakdown of trust, polls saying how the public feels about WashWall, the entity. The president has been blasting Wall Street since he took office. Much talk, no action.

Cash Trades on Bluff and Deception

Bill Baker, 12.14.2009

Author of "Endless Money"

Imagine that the explosive printing of broad money, which has been the case since the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913, ceased tomorrow.

In The Public Interest: Are Consumers Too Small To Save?

Ed Mierzwinski, 12.10.2009

Will Congress Replace the CFPA With a Coalition of Unwilling Regulators? Washington often seems like Superman's Bizarro World where "Us is opposite....

Why is Barney Frank allowing lobbyists to gut financial reform?

Edward Harrison, 12.08.2009

Banking and finance specialist, Global Macro Advisors

This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns That is the question Newsweek asked of the Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts in...

Bank failures in Georgia killing small business and households

Edward Harrison, 12.04.2009

Banking and finance specialist, Global Macro Advisors

This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns. Note: Since this post was published, three more banks in Georgia have failed. Read deta...

Is repayment of TARP money good for taxpayers?

Edward Harrison, 12.04.2009

Banking and finance specialist, Global Macro Advisors

This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns When I read Yves Smith's recent comments on Bank of America's repayment of its TARP fun...

Bernanke Must Answer for Dark of Night Change in Bank Regs

David Segal, 12.03.2009

Rhode Island State Rep.

In its new regulations, the Fed did Americans a huge disservice, doing away with consumers' potential right of recovery of overdraft charges -- which will total nearly $37.5 billion in 2009 alone.

AmTrust bankruptcy bad sign for regional banks

Edward Harrison, 12.02.2009

Banking and finance specialist, Global Macro Advisors

This article originally appeared on my site Credit Writedowns. AmTrust Financial, a privately held regional bank holding company based in Cleveland, ...