Weekly Audit: Too Big to Fail is Just Too Big

The Media Consortium, 11.03.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Last week, President Barack Obama released key legislation designed to fight the banking industry's too-big-...

News Flash: Lenders Prefer Fragmented Regulation of the Consumer Financial Marketplace

Norman I. Silber, 11.02.2009

Teaches Law at Hofstra

Regulators appear to have placed a higher value on protecting the interests of those who sell financial products than on the interests of consumers of transparent, safe, and fair financial products.

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.

Congress and TBTF: Bring in the Bomb Squad

Joshua Rosner, 10.29.2009

This bill is one more act of sleight of hand by a Congress that, to the detriment of the public, fails to see that banks are there to serve the public good and can be regulated with such a goal.

Weekly Audit: Dismantling the Wall Street Casino

The Media Consortium, 10.27.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Bailout pay czar Ken Feinberg raised a ruckus last week when he announced plans to slash cash payouts to exe...

A Reasonable Case For Regulation

Rep. Jackie Speier, 10.26.2009

U.S. Congresswoman from California's 12th District

How would you feel if you discovered that a highly-rated bond received its grade not because the company is strong, but because the rating agency assumed the government would bail the company out?

A Panel of Pros

Jonathan Tisch, 10.26.2009

Chairman & CEO, Loews Hotels and Co-Chairman Loews Corp

Where will we end up in a new regulated environment? Jonathan Tisch asks some of those closest to President Obama: Bill Daley, lawyer Marty Lipton and Penny Pritzker.

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...

How to Fix Wall Street before Another Collapse

John Standerfer, 10.20.2009

Executive Vice President of S3.

Twelve months removed from the forced bailout of financial institutions by US taxpayers, Goldman Sachs is back to paying its employees an average annu...

Canary in the Coal Mine: Student Loans

Amitai Etzioni, 10.20.2009

Author of "Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy"

If the Democrats cannot show that the existing arrangement constitutes a raid of the public treasury, do not expect them to do so on the much more complicated issues of credit swap controls.

Time to Take on the Banks

Eric Lotke, 10.19.2009

Research Director at the Campaign for America's Future and author of 2044

People didn't vote last November for laissez-faire capitalism and billion dollar bonuses. They didn't bail out banks that were too big to fail so they could take over banks that were smaller and did.

Time to Stop the Regulatory Circus and to Steer the Ship to Safe Ground

Georges Ugeux, 10.08.2009

Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors

The real issue for regulators around the globe is a serious definition of the financial world we want to live in. The current focus nearly exclusively on the banking sector could cause authorities to miss the broader picture.

Cap-and-Trade Versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy

Robert Stavins, 10.07.2009

Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program

One of the key merits of the cap-and-trade approach is that the program can provide cost-effectiveness, while achieving meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions levels.

Who Duped Rolling Stone Gonzo Reporter Matt Taibbi?

Diane Tucker, 10.11.2009

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."

Ryan Mack's Open Letter to Detroit: Safer Exotic Bars = Faster Economic Recovery

Ryan Mack, 10.03.2009

Economic commentator

There is no dollar value on the safety of the women in the exotic dancing industry.

Glass-Steagall 2.0: The American People Deserve An Explanation

Bruce Judson, 10.02.2009

Senior Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of Management; Author, "It Could Happen Here"

With so much at stake, the American people deserve a full explanation for why one vision of the financial system is superior to another.

A New Economy from Old Roots?

Dave Johnson, 09.30.2009

"Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere."

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a ...

Pot Wars: A Bipartisan Failure

Jessica Corry, 09.25.2009

Denver-based public policy analyst and political strategist

Democrats calculate they will have nothing to gain by legalizing. Republicans fear angering a socially conservative base of voters all too eager to forget its beer-bonging college days.

Just How Corrupt are the Bank Regulators?

Garrett Johnson, 09.23.2009

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?

California's Own Bernie Madoff

Jerry Brown, 09.22.2009

Attorney General of California

Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.

Do We Need More Internet Regulation? FCC to Decide

Joe Waz, 09.22.2009

Senior Vice President, External Affairs and Public Policy Counsel, Comcast

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