If Democrats shed their caution and become fighters, for jobs and health care and the middle class, they can pull off the same kind of surprise in 2010 that we pulled off in 1998.
bloomberg.com | Roger Lowenstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Financial reform seems to be flailing. Legislation has been proposed, but it is complicated and diffuse. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental ch...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Several major banks are fending off legislation meant to regulate the lucrative derivatives market by hiring a high-powered financial lobbyist. The H...
Mike Lux | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
In some ways, in some elections, at some times, centrism and swing voters are closely connected. But the connection is growing more and more tenuous.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee agreed Wednesday to ensure states can impose their own tough consumer protection laws agains...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Have you seen the latest stories about the profits and bonuses of the biggest banks on Wall Street? If you want to do something about it, I'd recommend going to Chicago next week.
Mike Lux | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
At a retreat this last weekend sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute on financial reform issues (I have to take a break from health care every once in ...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Lobbyists are honing in today on the House Financial Services Committee, which will begin marking up legislation on the controversial Consumer Financi...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
If government bails you out, subsidizes you, forces people to buy your product, or otherwise does business with you, we the people are owed some basic accountability on the other end of the deal.
David Sirota | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
In just the first half of 2009, the 15 New Democrats on Financial Services committee "received about $1.9 million in contributions from the finance, insurance and real estate industries."
Bloomberg | Rich Miller and Julianna Goldman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama said job losses are "bottoming out" and the U.S. economy looks to be growing again even as he warned against cutting off govern...
Matt Herbert | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
Would the adoption of mobile financial service technology benefit Islamic Banks?
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Although the Republicans and "Blue Dog" conservative Democrats claimed they oppose Obama's health care plan because it would increase the nation's debt, the real reason is driven by racism.
Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.
The Hill | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
On the eve of a major overhaul of the financial system intended to prevent another crisis from erupting, the financial industry has built a more than ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger The banking lobby still holds enough sway inside the Beltway to torpedo sensible consumer protection rules, ev...
wsj.com | MARY PILON | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
Carlos Araya used to order lobster, filet mignon and $200 bottles of red wine at the Palm Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Now, he seats customers at...
washingtonpost.com | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business
We're hearing a lot these days from well-run regional and community banks that feel that they are being punished for the mistakes of the Citigroups an...
Douglas J. Elliott | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
The financial "stress tests" on the big banks gave us good news: they "only" need $75 billion of new capital. That's a lot of money, but much less than many of us feared.
Jose A. Garcia | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
It is projected that, between 2020 and 2030, developing country emissions of carbon from energy use will exceed those of developed countries.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama may have been the host of a prime-time press conference on Wednesday evening, but it was Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who had the ...
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON and EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 05.12.2009 | Business
As the Obama administration completes its examinations of the nation's largest banks, industry executives are bracing for fights with the government o...
Harry Moroz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
We should remember that by avoiding principal write downs -- and focusing on monthly mortgage payments -- the burden of wealth destruction is being placed on homeowners, not on banks.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Capitol Hill is not a place where staffers become famous. The focus is on members of Congress, while aides remain in the background, unnamed and unrem...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
Why is Ellen Tauscher, head of the New Democrat Coalition, working so hard on behalf of bank and mortgage industry lobbyists?
Mike Lux | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics