Getting by on $1,000,000 a Year in a Recession

James Altucher, 12.01.2009

Financial columnist and managing director of Formula Capital

My friend had just earned a $1 million in the midst of the worst recession in 75 years. Was he excited? Hardly. He was too worried about being broke by this same time next year.

Beyond the Tobin Tax: End the Free Ride for the Financial Sector and Impose Fees to Revive the Economy

Kyle G. Brown, 11.28.2009

Writer and journalist based in Toronto

The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.

FDIC Shortfall Symptom of Much Bigger Problem

Marshall Auerback, 11.25.2009

Roosevelt Institute Braintruster

Having the FDIC implement higher insurance charges on the banks is wrong on many grounds. For one thing, it's grossly unfair to force well-run banks to pay higher premiums to pay for the sins of Citi, BOA, or Wells Fargo.

A Bit of a Break from the Big Banks

Tram Nguyen, 11.25.2009

In the face of rising consumer outcry and outrageous stories reported in the media, legislators and regulators finally found the political will to make some moves to restrict overdraft protection.

Life Insurance -- Bankers' New Best Friend

Christopher Brauchli, 11.24.2009

Columnist and lawyer

This latest financial instrument is a guaranteed win-win almost for sure.

Add NSF Fees to the List of Commercial Banking Reforms

J. Richard Stevens, 11.24.2009

Assistant Professor at UC Boulder

Anyone who runs a month-to-month family budget knows that in recent years many commercial banks have slowly adjusted account policies in ways that increase their revenue from fees.

Just How Corrupt are the Bank Regulators?

Garrett Johnson, 11.23.2009

Freelance writer

Can we really expect the FDIC to effectively regulate the banks that have loaned them money so that they can do their job?

The American Graduation Initiative: Something Even The Banks Should Bank On!

Gail Mellow, 11.22.2009

President of LaGuardia Community College

The very same industry that has taken billions of dollars in bailout money from the federal government is not ready to loosen its grip on the cash cow that is the private student loan industry.

Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin, 11.22.2009

My Opinion

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

The Rally Against Obamacare for the Banks

Dean Baker, 11.21.2009

Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Instead of trying to prevent the government from extending health care coverage, how about going after the banks that pillaged the country?

Banking's Good, Bad And Ugly

Dan Dorfman, 11.21.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator.

So far this year, 94 banks have failed and another 500 to 1,000 may go belly up in the next two to three years. Let's take a look at our nation's banks.

Time to Just Say No to Giant Corporate "Parasites" -- and Recognize Them for What They Are

Robert Creamer, 11.18.2009

Political organizer, strategist and author

The corporate parasites are the loudest defenders of "free markets" and the most vociferous opponents of "government takeovers," when in fact they exist by feeding off the taxpayers.

Let's Make a Deal: Beltway Edition

Michael Winship, 11.17.2009

Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS

While executives are dancing with your dollars, the foreclosures they helped to bring on continue to rise. Many banks are dragging their feet, enjoying the bailout bucks but failing to spread them around.

Don't Bank On It!

Dan Dorfman, 11.16.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator.

As far as the stock market goes: Don't fall in love with supposedly sure things because the wrong sure thing can kill you.

ATMurders Can Be Avoided

Robin Sax, 11.16.2009

Former Deputy District Attorney, Legal Commentator, Author

Why aren't there better security measures to keep people safe while using ATMs? This issue has been around for at least two decades, but little progress has been made.

Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus, 11.15.2009

Veteran of the political blogging community.

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

Stop Being a Leech

Richard Zombeck, 11.15.2009

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Mortgage Specialist. See more at www.shitheyduhree.com

Not paying your debt and letting your credit score tank seems un-American, but what these banks are doing is completely un-American.

Reports of Another Stock Market Fall this Fall Exaggerated

Diane Francis, 11.14.2009

Editor at Large, the National Post

A quick survey of market catastrophes reveals that autumn is not only when the traditional harvest comes in, but also when we reap what we have sown -- whether it's corn or bad economic policy.

Brokering the Bailout

John O'Kane, 11.12.2009

Teaches media and pop culture at UCI and edits AMASS

Bailing out big banks has hardly contributed to a climate conducive to free markets and competition. On the contrary, it has allowed institutions already too big to fail to gobble up other banks.

Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin, 11.11.2009

Author of Mortgage Wars

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

The Story That Made Me Tear Up My Prepared Speech at a Big Education Conference

Arianna Huffington, 11.09.2009

Shouldn't we also be living in a country that can come together right now and bail out schoolchildren who, unlike Wall Street, are too small to be allowed to fail before they have been allowed to succeed?