Demonizing Goldman Leaves Wall Street Off the Hook

Georges Ugeux, 11.20.2009

Chairman and CEO, Galileo Global Advisors

This week's favorite game was attacking Goldman Sachs for its outrageous compensation system, including expectations that the total bonus package f...

Where Are The Shareholders?

Norman Goldman, 11.20.2009

Attorney, Syndicated radio show host, 'The Norman Goldman Show'

We need corporate reform by way of requiring all shareholders to approve all pay of all executives at all publicly traded corporations. Only then will this looting insanity end.

Teabaggers and Boomers Don't Matter

Mike Papantonio, 11.20.2009

Senior partner of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor

The next time you see a picture of a tea party protest, look closely and try to identify anyone in that crowd under the age of 30. If you identify as...

Key Question Unasked, Unanswered During Congress' Joint Economic Hearings On The Financial Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy, 11.20.2009

Scholar and author, "Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future"

Did Goldman and the other banks know for certain that the bankruptcy of AIG was no longer a risk for them? That the Fed and Treasury were now irrevocably committed to saving AIG?

Better Start Learning Chinese

Shawn Amos, 11.20.2009

Pop Culture Pundit and Host of 'Retro Minute'

I was watching Obama speak to those Shanghai students during his big Asia trip, and suddenly I remembered my '80s high school Spanish class. My teache...

Congress Rocks

Jim Jaffe, 11.19.2009

Washington observer

Congress is moving at a pace that can fairly be characterized as astonishingly fast to slash the number of Americans who lack health insurance by more than half.

The War of the Sweeteners

Dan Dorfman, 11.19.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator.

Michael McCarthy, a former linebacker, and current chief executive of NXT Nutritional Holdings is used to taking hits. But now he is trying his luck in a much riskier arena: Wall Street.

Recovery Without a Reckoning

Carla Seaquist, 11.19.2009

How can you have a recovery if the party that caused the crash refuses rehab? The economy is like traffic: It moves along fine if all the moving pa...

Afghanistan: No Good Alternatives

Ryan McDermott, 11.19.2009

Veteran, Investment Banker

It might have seemed unfathomable back in 2001 to think that this war would have gone on so long, but here we are eight years in and no end in sight.

Navigating the Jobs Crisis: Clean Energy and Good Jobs Go Hand in Hand

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, 11.19.2009

CEO, Green For All

We must measure our true economic progress by a different metric: the number of career-track, green jobs that we create for those Americans who need them most.

Obama's Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us to School

Eric Lotke, 11.19.2009

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

While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship "at an all-time high," China continues to take our lunch money.

Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation

Les Leopold, 11.19.2009

Author of "The Looting of America"

Weatherization should be the Democrats' dream program. In one fell swoop you create jobs, reduce living expenses, improve national energy security, enhance business profitability and confront global warming.

FDR Would Not Accept a 'Jobless Recovery'

David Woolner, 11.19.2009

Senior vice president of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park NY

For FDR's administration, the notion of a "jobless recovery" would have been an anathema.

Economic Meltdown -- A Call for Systemic Change

John Perkins, 11.18.2009

Author, Hoodwinked

We have been hoodwinked into believing that a mutant form of capitalism espoused by Milton Friedman and promoted by President Reagan and every president since is acceptable.

Why Ron Paul is Wrong

James Altucher, 11.18.2009

Financial columnist and managing director of Formula Capital

At the end of the day, don't succumb to populist panic. Capitalism works and is on its way to a recovery if we just sit back and let it happen.

The Problem With a Jobs Bill -- And With Everything Else

Dave Johnson, 11.20.2009

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

As long as our economy is structured to pass everything up to a few at the top, stimuli can't work well, and jobs bills can't work well, either. Neither can anything else.

Elizabeth Warren: Hard Truths About the Economy

Joel B. Schwartzberg, 11.18.2009

From the newsmagazine "NOW on PBS"

Last weekend, NOW on PBS aired an insightful, hard-hitting interview with Elizabeth Warren that moved much of our audience to write in with their opin...

My Testimony Before the U.S. Senate on Reforming Financial Market Regulation

Rob Johnson, 11.18.2009

Director of Economic Policy, Roosevelt Institute, NewDeal2.0

Losses of wealth, lost employment and economic activity and bailouts totaling trillions of dollars around the world are strong evidence of the failed structures of financial markets in their current form.

Goldman and the Smell of Guilt

Charles Gasparino, 11.18.2009

Author, The Sellout

What CEO bypasses shareholders in an attempt to buy off public outrage over billion dollar bonuses if such outrage isn't justified in the first place?

What Would Lincoln Do? Financial Regulation in Times of Crisis

Ray Brescia, 11.19.2009

Assistant Professor of Law, Albany Law School

Many features in our current financial system were also present in the financial system at the outbreak of the Civil War. The lesson we can learn is that reform will take radical steps over a long time.

Winning the Clean Energy Race: A New Strategy for American Leadership

Teryn Norris, 11.18.2009

Senior Advisor, Breakthrough Institute

You know the world is changing when the president's first trip to Asia is defined by a new U.S. foreign policy dubbed "strategic reassurance" - convin...