Going Rogue, Going Rouge, Going Red

Rosalyn Hoffman, 11.24.2009

Chalk it up to pre-traumatic-Thanksgiving-stress-syndrome, we've been lying awake for nights obsessing about the big O's big state dinner, and our ima...

Weekly Audit: Unemployment Fueling Political Storm

The Media Consortium, 11.24.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Unemployment figures in the U.S. are staggering: The official rate stands at 10.2%, the highest in 26 years....

Judges as Problem Solvers: New Approaches to Foreclosures

Ray Brescia, 11.24.2009

Assistant Professor of Law, Albany Law School

According to recent figures from the Mortgage Bankers Association, in town after town and in communities across the country, over 14 percent of all re...

Knocking Down The Biggest Excuse For The Bailout

Cenk Uygur, 11.24.2009

Host of The Young Turks

If the Obama team wants to earn back some goodwill concerning the banks, they have to do better than the lame excuse of "we had to do it." They didn't have to do it this way. There were many other possibilities.

Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay, 11.24.2009

Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.

Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

More Pain For You And Me: The Economy's About To Stumble

Andrew Reinbach, 11.24.2009

Journalist

Since the likelihood of more federal stimulus packages is low -- unless they're called something like a "jobs bill" -- this will mean more pain and an even slower economy.

How to Live On $0 a Day: Saving a Cherished American Holiday

Lesley Stern, 11.23.2009

Writer, counselor to the nouveau poor

Ask your neighbors over for a potluck Thanksgiving feast, just like the Pilgrims invited the Native Americans. Once you've enjoyed their delicious offerings, kill them and steal their possessions and property.

Warren Buffett, Stop Using My Credit Card!

Janet Tavakoli, 11.23.2009

President, Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.

We must stop subsidizing speculators with cheap funding and tax breaks. We have to hold people accountable for malfeasance, break up large financial institutions, and allow them to fail.

Why is Obama Championing Bush's Financial Wrecking Crew?

William K. Black, 11.23.2009

Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City; Sr. regulator during S&L debacle

Obama promoted the architects of the financial disaster and demands that we hail them as heroes because they, and Wall Street, only wrecked the economy -- they haven't (yet) utterly destroyed it.

Navigating The Economy

Alan Schram, 11.23.2009

Managing Partner of Wellcap Partners, a hedge fund based in Los Angeles

The business cycle is not dead. America has many coping mechanisms to deal with the current hangover. As it has before, this country will unleash the innovative, hard working and productive side of its citizens.

Congressman Grayson: SIGTARP Report Illustrates Danger of Secret Bailouts

Damien Hoffman, 11.23.2009

Editor-in-Chief, Wall St. Cheat Sheet

On Monday night we posted Tyler Durden's breakdown of the SIGTARP audit of the AIG bailout. Will this report resurrect the Fed Audit movement now that...

2010 Could Wreak Havoc Again

Dan Dorfman, 11.22.2009

Financial Columnist, Market Commentator.

With less than seven weeks to go before we're in 2010, you'll soon be bombarded with Wall Street's annual new year's forecasts. You can be sure the predictions from the brokerage community will be decidedly rosy.

Why Not Just "Ethical Businesses" Must Truly Be Ethical

Vivian Norris de Montaigu, 11.22.2009

Based in Paris and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies

Some so-called "ethical" businesses are not only not operating ethically, they are playing on the entire "ethical/social/free trade" branding, using it for personal profit-making and benefit while empowering no one but themselves.

Where Palin and Beck Supporters Are Right And Why Obama Better Listen

Lee Stranahan, 11.22.2009

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

Lots of people on the right and left agree about the problems with the bailouts and the White House has no answers for them. How do you think that will play at the polls?

Economists: Wrong Again

Michael J. Panzner, 11.22.2009

Author of When Giants Fall and Financial Armageddon

Many economists are advocating aggressive spend-and-borrow policies to revive the financial crisis-hit U.S. economy that reflect an astonishing degree of naïveté and ivory tower hubris.

Integrating the Best Ideas from Left and Right

Linda Buzzell, 11.21.2009

Psychotherapist, co-editor "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind"

As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.

If It Were Me, I'd Be Embarrassed

David Vines, 11.24.2009

Last Wednesday, a media firestorm erupted after a seventeen-year-old girl named Jackie was interviewed by MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell while standing in line during Sarah Palin's Michigan book signing.

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.

Lloyd Blankfein Has A Reality Problem

Andy Stern, 11.24.2009

President, SEIU

Lloyd Blankfein doesn't get it. If he really wants to change Goldman Sachs' image, he's got to change reality.

Goldman Sachs' $500 Million Mea Culpa

Joseph A. Palermo, 11.24.2009

Author/Associate Professor of History

It's truly touching that Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who recently said that his too-big-to-fail, Fed-backed holding company is doing "God's wo...