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With two-thirds of the nation supporting reform, any political party that throws in its lot with Wall Street will pay a major price come November. No amount of Wall Street campaign cash can counter voter outrage.
It's time to bring back William K. Black and resolute regulators like him. Our proposed "financial reform" bill is a sham, and the health of our society and our economy is at stake.
Sarah Palin's broadside against the Obama administration's Wall Street reform proposal is an interesting study in, well, hackery. One the one hand, he...
What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of 2010? You'd think that after r...
Former CEO of Lehman Bros. convenes a fiscal summit for aggressive cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits. In a hard times economy, we need to protect Social Security's future.
The Hill published a truly outrageous op-ed by a payday lending front group, and the publication didn't bother to tell readers it was providing a platform for a predatory hatchet-woman.
The financial crisis hit in the summer of 2007. By the fall of 2008, Wall Street had nearly destroyed itself. Obama put forth a reform proposal in June of 2009. It is now the spring of 2010. The time for action is long overdue.
For Goldman Sachs crime does in fact pay - and very well. Today, Goldman Sachs was charged with defrauding investors -- $1 billion worth of fraud discovered so far.
Goldman Sachs claims great risk management skills, while it shirks responsibility for its role in the near collapse of the U.S. economy. The former is a myth, and the latter is a dodge.
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Next week, the debate over financial reform will begin in earnest when Congress returns from its Easter break...
Main Street in Wisconsin is just like Main Street everywhere else, and we're wondering if the U.S. Senate back East will stand up for us this spring. ...
Many of the same people who were involved in the bailouts, who still don't have a fundamental understanding of banking, are now designing a regulatory reform bill. Good luck to us.
If the current bull run lasts 1000 days, it will reach exhaustion after April, 2013. My research of market patterns paints a grim picture after that.
Yes, systemic risks exist and interconnectivity extends risk into the fabric of our lives and businesses, but how did that risk get transferred to the federal government, then to you and me?
This weekend over a thousand homes across America will be hosting viewing parties of my latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story. I'd like to invite you to be part of this great shared event.
It takes courage to tell the real story of this financial crash and recession. This is actually a story of Wall Street's massive, wide-spread, multi-year fraud, including accounting fraud.
