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When in trouble, cue a Republican politician's favorite political villain, the welfare queen. You know the stereotype. The single African American mother whose full-time job is having more babies to increase her welfare benefits.
Let me give you some advice I have been giving to people for a decade: quit listening to what your politicians are saying and start watching what they are doing. If you look past the propaganda you'll see that the U.S. government is anti-small business.
Whatever his reason, the idea that Beck re-injected into the national conversation -- that race and the Tea Party are linked -- is an important one.
Wall Street banks in general are laying off more and more people given the headwinds of the financial sector. But that is the point. How many of the laid off could have been kept on the payroll with just a portion of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's paycheck?
In the run up to the 2012 elections, Barack Obama will define himself as the champion of the middle class -- as compared to the Republican candidate. But the real populist, the one who gives voice to the 99 percent, will be Elizabeth Warren.
The work of financial reform is far from done. Knowing now what they should have known a couple of years ago, Congress should revisit major structural reforms like restoring Glass-Steagall.
How is it possible in a democratic republic that the Federal Reserve spends trillions of our dollars without our permission, indebts us for generations to come without even a vote by Congress?
How long will we permit the major banks to "game" our economic system? Or, maybe it's time to frankly acknowledge they have become the De facto fourth branch of our government, without any amendment to our Constitution.
J.P. Morgan Chase is buying a stake from MF Global in the London Metals Exchange that will make it the largest single share holder ahead of guess who? Right, Goldman Sachs!
It has been an intense primary season, with a number of candidates rising to the top of media discussion only to fade just as quickly. Here are nine reasons why Herman Cain's campaign may also burn out.
Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars -- the only difference being that the bailout there didn't involve just three payouts. More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going.
Among many amusing moments watching the Republican debate was seeing how they condemned the 2008 TARP plan to bail out the financial industry. They all made it sound like it was some Democratic government giveaway, which could not be further from the truth.
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."- thus said candidate Barack Obama who used it for a Presidential campaign speech in February 2008. Althou...
Conservatives proclaim that they believe in freedom and the free market. But freedom never meant the right of a handful of to steal most of the nation's wealth, run roughshod over the rest of us and wreck the country for a buck.
The Government Accountability Office says that our government has handed out $16 trillion to the banks. All of that money went from you and me to the banks. And we got nothing. Not even a toaster.
