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Third World America: Is Living a Normal Life a Political Statement?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Don McNay

America is going through economic chaos. But a lot of other things are going on, too. There aren't enough of us living normal, stable lives.

When a Bank Is too Big to Hide

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Sanford D. Horwitt

It may be needlessly costly for a big bank to hide from determined, aggrieved adversaries who hold the moral high ground.

The Parable of the Unmerciful Bankers

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Wallis

It's estimated that the bonus pool of just one of these big banks would have been enough money to prevent or significantly delay foreclosure for all 2.3 million people who lost their homes last year.

The $20 Billion Gamble: The Greatest Coup in Financial History

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Blake Fleetwood

Paulson made his bets in late 2006 just as the sub-prime mortgage markets were starting to weaken. His timing was impeccable, as was his luck.

U.S. Mortgage Fraud Remains at Epidemic Levels

Pat Choate | Posted 05.25.2011

Pat Choate

Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.

Playing the Hand that Life Deals You

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2011

Don McNay

I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And usually turn that hand into aces.

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 05.25.2011

Andrew Reinbach

We can expect a new wave of mortgage-backed bond defaults to hit the headlines any day now.

Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

A Fat Guy's Prediction: We Need Leadership or We Will Fall Off the Economic Wagon

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Don McNay

Unless someone is capable of changing the American psyche, people are going to go back to their old spending habits.

No Hoax: Pass Employee Free Choice Act to Revive Economy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Leo W. Gerard

Workers must vanquish the new hoax being perpetrated by conservatives, greedy CEOs and other labor union-haters. Workers must win the freedom that they had in 1935 to choose how to form their unions.

12 Percent Are Behind On Mortgage Or In Foreclosure

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Foreclosures are spreading by epidemic proportions, expanding beyond a handful of problem states and now affecting almost 1 in every ...