The Audacity to Change

Robert Kuttner, 11.09.2009

Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect

Obama, like Kennedy, needs to overcome the dubious counsel of his own advisers, this time both economic and military. The president needs to listen to other voices, including his own.

The Wrath of Suburbanites and Independents

Joseph A. Palermo, 11.04.2009

Author/Associate Professor of History

The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.

Obama: The Central Question of Our Time

Cenk Uygur, 11.03.2009

Host of The Young Turks

Obama's first year has not been full of good signs. He got a few things done while clearly leaning on the wrong side on the most important issues. But it's nowhere near too late.

A Systemic Risk Regulator and a Compensation Tsar? Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke Must Be Kidding

David Paul, 11.03.2009

President of the Fiscal Strategies Group

With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.

Changing the World by Changing the Gender Gap

Leslie Grossman, 11.02.2009

Cofounder, Women's Leadership Exchange, Author

There was good news and bad news in the Gender Gap Index. The good news is that the health and education gaps are being closed. The bad news is that the economic and political gaps are not.

For Wall Street and Goldman Sachs the Party Continues

Joseph A. Palermo, 11.02.2009

Author/Associate Professor of History

A criminal gang of rich white guys in New York did some extremely reckless things with the nation's collective wealth, and the middle class got clobbered.

Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women

Linda R. Monk, J.D., 11.02.2009

Constitutional scholar, Author of "The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution"

Women like Brooksley Born have a long history of being whistle-blowers in systems dominated by men. Perhaps this time Congress -- and the American people -- will listen.

While Larry Summers Dreams, You Can Act

Robert Lenzner, 10.31.2009

Forbes columnist

What can an investor do? For advice, I sat down with Marc Harris of RBC, one of the few large banks that maneuvered a clear course through the economic turmoil.

Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It

Robert Reich, 10.27.2009

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

Two ideas are floating around Washington regarding how to handle 'too big to fail' banks, but only one is supported by the Treasury and the White House. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one.

Arianna Discusses Public's Bailout Anger On BBC's Newsnight

Huff TV, 10.25.2009

Arianna recently appeared on BBC's Newsnight to discuss the economic crisis, the lack of reform, and the effects of the bailout on American society an...

Reading The Pictures: Volcker and the White House: Not Too Big To Flail

Michael Shaw, 10.21.2009

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes

Beyond the pure shame of it, this photo of the Obama economic team is almost too painful to look at.

Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo, 10.20.2009

Author/Associate Professor of History

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

Words From the Wise?

Michael J. Panzner, 10.17.2009

Author of When Giants Fall and Financial Armageddon

I just got back from The Economist's "Buttonwood Gathering" and thought I'd share a few of the more interesting quotes from the movers-and-shakers at the conference.

Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?

David A. Love, 10.15.2009

Writer and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia

American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.

Women Make Nobel History

Madeleine M. Kunin, 10.15.2009

First Female Governor of Vermont; Marsh Scholar, University of Vermont

For the first time ever, three women won top science prizes and we saw the first woman in Nobel history awarded the economics prize. Girls are now just as good at math as the boys.

Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose

Yvette Kantrow, 10.06.2009

Executive editor for The Deal.

A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.

Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani, 10.05.2009

Writer

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

Size Matters: Why the Obama Administration is Wrong About Wall Street Pay

Les Leopold, 09.21.2009

Author of "The Looting of America"

Just a year ago, it seemed plausible that our government would do the obvious: bring the hammer down on sky-high salaries and bonuses, which clearly had no economic justification.

Paulson's Decision Cost Lehman, Then the World

Lawrence G. McDonald, 09.18.2009

Public Speaker, Author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, MD Pangea Capital, LP

What, I ask, would have happened if Paulson had simply stepped aside and let Bear Stearns collapse into bankruptcy back in March 2008?

Tone Deaf? The White House and Unemployment

RJ Eskow, 09.15.2009

Consultant, Writer, Health Analyst

If unemployment figures are really "unacceptable," why is Larry Summers accepting the forecast -- and repeating it -- instead of telling us how the White House plans to change it?

P3s: Let's Not Party Like It's 1929

Michael Likosky, 09.19.2009

Author of Obama's Bank (Cambridge University Press 2009)

We must take the public interest more seriously when we talk about P3s.