Well Regulated BS
As long as politicians can take money from the industries that are supposed to be regulated, taxpayers will keep paying for the profiteering of these industries.
As long as politicians can take money from the industries that are supposed to be regulated, taxpayers will keep paying for the profiteering of these industries.
Sen. Carl Levin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Tax havens like Lichtenstein are engaged in economic warfare against the US and honest, hardworking taxpayers. Each year, the US Treasury loses an estimated $100 billion in revenues from offshore abuses.
Scott Sinclair | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
In the wake of the failure of Bear Stearns, with layoffs at all the major financial institutions and the threat of more bank failures, it's entrepreneurs and small business owners who are investing in the American dream.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
The amount of money banks are setting aside to absorb losses is increasing, as is the amount of money they are charging off. Neither of these are good developments.
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
Take the job after an economic downturn, announce "new era" for Your Bank, have PR people place a Fortune cover story about you, and sit in your chair for three years and collect at least $50 million.
Heath Calvert | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Oh man, wasn't last week's National Enquirer Presidential Debate phenomenal? We talked about all the important issues. Talked, again, about Hillary (...
Financial Times | By Francesco Guerrera and Ben White | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business
JPMorgan Chase remains on the acquisition trail in spite of its recent takeover of Bear Stearns and tough market conditions, Jamie Dimon, chairman and...
CNBC | Charles Gasparino | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
A consortium of banks is planning to underwrite a private sale of as much as $2.5 billion of Ambac stock to shore up the bond insurer's capital, which...
Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics
The banks are already into health care in a big way, serving as a repository for health savings accounts and other tax credit schemes. But the financiers would like more.
Robert Scheer | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
For decades, banking lobbyists have pushed through legislation freeing them to wreak havoc on our lives while they profit from lucrative personal bailouts even as their own companies suffer.
CNBC | Charles Gasparino | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business
James Cayne has resigned as chief executive officer of Bear Stearns, amid widespread concern over his management of the Wall Street firm that has been...
Sunday Times of London (U.K.) | Christopher Thompson, Jonathan Calvert and Jonathan Ungoed-Thomas | Posted 11.10.2007 | Business
BARCLAYS is bankrolling President Robert Mugabe's corrupt regime in Zimbabwe by providing substantial loans to cronies given land seized from white fa...
Wall Street Journal | JASON SINGER and CARRICK MOLLENKAMP | Posted 10.04.2007 | Business
The biggest banking deal ever is likely to conclude today, resulting in the dismemberment of one of Europe's largest banks. The significance of the d...
The Guardian (U.K.) | Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager | Posted 09.17.2007 | Business
The government last night issued an emergency pledge to Northern Rock savers that their money is safe, after a third day of queues outside branches th...
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Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics