Never in our history has the Independent vote been so crucial.
How much damage to the financial system should we expect from what is now commonly called the foreclosure morass, the developing scandal involving doc...
JPMorgan Chase & Company has a proposition for the mutual funds and pension funds that oversee many Americans' savings: Heads, we win together. Tails,...
In the years since the nation's largest banks were bailed out by taxpayers they have shown very little in the way of thanks. They can begin demonstrating some gratitude by rebuilding what they broke.
A coalition of groups led by the SEIU is launching a campaign to help homeowners capitalize on a growing foreclosure fraud scandal that has forced ban...
The housing crisis is just one piece of the big, ugly mess of the consumer credit debacle. It seems to me that our president must call for immediate reform and take action through executive order.
Job cuts sometimes have a way of sneaking up on you -- a few teachers here, a police officer there and a fire department that may not be open when you...
Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, ...
Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Fac...
Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen - Woodie Guthrie Like mushrooms popping up in a damp basement, a slew of court settleme...
Da Bomp bomp ba bomp da bomp bomp, Da Bomp bomp ba bomp bomp ba bomp bomp. This is the rhythm of work today. Whether getting your grind on behind a ...
The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of "financial reform" are already...
A newly released Standford paper is pure gold. It focuses on what CEOs say in investor conference calls and how they say it. How they say it provides psychological linguistic clues into whether they are lying or not.
With real storylines like Oil Spills, Big Banks' Foreclosures, or Turning Down Loans to Pregnant Women, and real characters like The Truly Unemployed,...
A Bank of America call center offered Burger King Whoppers to workers as a reward for hitting a quota, while peddling Bank of America products. Somehow this incident sums up everything that is wrong in America.
To spur sales during a week in June, a manager at a Bank of America call center in Nevada tantalized employees with the Whopper Jr. A flier provided...
On a recent episode of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert spoke to Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, about the possib...
BOSTON — Congress appears poised to tighten restrictions on the fees that merchants pay when customers swipe debit cards at cash registers. An ...
After more than 40 summits held across the country to figure out why the nation's small businesses aren't getting the loans they need and qualify for,...
WASHINGTON — Big companies are building up cash and are expected to report strong earnings starting this week. Not so for small businesses that ...
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate today approved an amendment to the financial-overhaul bill to retain the Federal Reserve's powers to supervise s...
The bank lobbyists, it turns out, missed one. They and their congressional allies were able to gut the Volcker Rule, the Lincoln Amendment, and almost everything else that could have had an effect on the industry.
You know that Wall Street reform bill pending in the Senate? Some last minute insertions add up to a surprisingly big win for the developing world. ...
Arianna appeared on CNN's "John King USA" Wednesday night to talk about the "Move Your Money" campaign, which she said allows people to act where gove...
The big two parties are failing this country horrifically. It's politics over competency at every single point, including where our domestic security is concerned.
