Financial Reforms

Appeal to the U.N.: Treat the Financial Crisis as Human RIghts Disaster

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Crimes Against Humanity, Human Rights, Financial Reforms, Shoshana Zuboff, United Nations, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Business News
Danny Schechter

I will be in Geneva next week making the case for the financial crisis as a crime against humanity, an international offense that the U.N. was set up to prevent and now even prosecutes, however sparingly, in the International Criminal Court.

Read Post

America's Media Mayhem

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media, Financial Reforms, Financial Meltdown, Goldman Sach, BP Blowout, Bp, Media News
Diane Francis

The roiling blogosphere, blowhards on Fox and news that stalks everyone anywhere, now appears to be driving politics and enhancing corporate risk.

Read Post

'13 Bankers': If The Megabanks Are Too Powerful To Regulate, Then They're Too Powerful To Shrink

Noam Scheiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Too Big to Fail, Citigroup, Obama Financial Reform, Financial Reforms, Arianna's Reading, Books, 13 Bankers, Simon Johnson, Megabanks, Bailouts, Financial Regulation, Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Reform, Bestsellers, Books News
Noam Scheiber

Anyone can talk tough when markets are calm. But in the middle of a financial crisis it takes a special breed of hard-ass to insist on haircuts, since no one can be sure that squeezing creditors won't shut down the entire bond market.

Read Post

In God We...Invest

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Random Walk, Citigroup, Malcom Gladwell, Burton Malkiel, Paul Samuelson, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Outliers, Federal Reserve, Obama Financial Reforms, Black Swan, Market Reforms, Wall Street Journal, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Fed Chairman, Wall Street, Financial Reforms, Nyse, Stock Market, Business News
Jeff Schweitzer

Wall Street is our secular religion. As with more traditional beliefs, faith trumps reason. That explains our willful blindness to the obvious scam, the fantastic story told to us by billionaire bankers.

Read Post

Wall Street Follies: The Next Act

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Financial Services Committee, Bailout, House Agriculture Committee, Obama Adminstration, Financial Reforms, Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Ag Committee, Derivatives, Economy, Financial Reform, Obama, Reform, The Fed, Consumer Protection Bill, White House, Financial Services Committee, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

It certainly sounded good. Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, t...

Read Whole Story