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This July 4, politics is too important to be left to the politicians. The stakes are too high and the system is too broken. Citizen action is everyone's job now.
Goldman may be the vampire squid. But it had sense enough to try to get its employees home on a rainy Friday night.
The Huffington Post's Dave Jamieson appeared Thursday on MSNBC's 'The Dylan Ratigan Show' to discuss why states are selling their toll roads to Wall S...
The U.S. economy is surviving only because of over-stimulation. We're living on fumes in this country, and the pursuit of happiness has come to an end for millions of families.
While many of us regard diversity as a positive value in and of itself, there's a business case to be made as well: We're talking about a large and growing market.
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau, Higher Laws Good news for investors whose investments have gone south com...
While we pay more and more at the pump, Republicans in the House are looking for new ways to protect Wall Street oil speculators from regulation.
In an era of increasingly stretched local and state budgets, privatization of public assets may be so tempting to local politicians that the trend seems unstoppable. What would it be like to have a government that is for-profit rather than For the People?
The bailout and stimulus money allowed us to limp along for a couple of years. Now we are back to where we started, but worse, since we borrowed trillions to pay for it.
The wars drag on, the economy teeters, climate change unfolds just as the scientists predicted, and the yawning gap between the rich and the rest of us continues to grow. And what are we left with? The spectacle of a guy named Weiner doing naughty things.
Late yesterday afternoon Moody's Investor Services officially warned that if there is no imminent progress in Congress on the debt ceiling fight, the United States of America's Aaa credit rating would be cut.
Today's announcement that Goldman Sachs received a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney has left many wondering whether any top executives will face criminal prosecution for the company's role in causing the financial meltdown of 2008.
The myth of American financial competence is underscored by the latest story of how Goldman Sachs lost 98% of a $1.3 billion investment by Libya's sovereign wealth fund. Wow, in Goldman Sachs We Trust!
With the general "no banker left behind" program pursued by Tim Geithner under both George W. Bush and Obama, the theory was that saving the banks would save the country. The first part worked out brilliantly, but the second act never occurred.
While mainstream America continues to struggle with the recessionary consequences of a meltdown caused by financial excess, large financial institutions are back to profitability and back to their old ways.
After every financial debacle or war, there is a huge political struggle over whether creditors get to stand in the way of an economic recovery. Greece is the poster child for this dilemma, and the Greek story reveals the real villain of the piece.
