An angry public is getting distracted hunting evil doers that really don't matter much in the grander national scheme.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.
Politico | MANU RAJU | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
The eye-popping national debt surpassed $11 trillion Monday, the largest in U.S. history. The new Treasury Department figures on the national debt w...
Dean Obeidallah | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy
As a comedian, I have had to deal with my share of debt collectors in the past so I wanted to offer some advice to President Obama on how to best avoid China if they start trying to collect their trillion dollars...
OptionARMageddon | Rolfe Winkler | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
GDP for the full year 2008 was higher than 2007. But Q4 2008 GDP was lower compared to Q3. So towards the very end of the year, the denominator (GD...
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
Even George Washington had reasons other than unadulterated fealty to Lady Liberty for rejecting foreign rule. In fact, what galvanized him was the 18th century version of credit card debt.
AP | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A senior senator is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reported instances of debt collection firms asking people to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
This story was reported with help from our readers. Have you been asked by a collection agency to pay debt for a deceased friend of relative? If so, ...
Alan Fein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
The capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will ensure to the benefit of generations to come.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
On Tuesday, Moody's Investors Service published a new list called the Bottom Rung, which details which companies the ratings agency says are most like...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business
There's a new frontier in the debt-collection industry: the dead. The New York Times reported yesterday that improved database technology has made it ...
Alan Schram | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The new budget President Obama proposed last week is no less than another American revolution, an economic revolution that changes the very fundamenta...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The wealth of the past 10-15 years was illusory. The markets have in fact dropped back to where they "should" be.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
Henry Ford used to say that he wanted his workers to have enough money to buy his cars. For their own self-interest, business, and their Republican allies in Congress, should embrace broad unionization.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business
The stock market knows what Treasury still needs to admit: the banks are bust. Their CEOs lack all credibility. Until they are nationalized the Dow will continue its very rational path downwards.
Michael J. Panzner | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
After almost four decades of relative calm and complacency, there are signs that the social mood is beginning to sour.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
Jindal's speech is easy to dismiss, but the potential power of his misleading message must be taken seriously.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
The Chinese hold our debt and buy our real estate and in return we buy their manufactured goods. Perhaps we could bring some Chinese wisdom and savvy over too, just to balance the beam.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business
Hot on the heels of the banking crisis, the employment crisis, and the mortgage/foreclosure crisis, the country is on the verge of experiencing a credit card crisis.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
The GOP has no credibility in opposing a stimulus package that effectively repudiates their failures of the past eight years.
oprah.com | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living
The new year is a wonderful time to make a fresh start--but that can be difficult if you're still trying to pay for everything you did in the last yea...
United Press International | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
The head of the Florida's compulsive gambling council says a growing number of state residents are attempting to recoup personal loses through blackja...
Manisha Thakor | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
Most Americans do not know the answer to this simple but powerful question -- "how much is a house can I afford?"
Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
We must once again make money work for the people.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
The Treasury seems in danger of pandering to the Wall Street beast, rather than protecting the vulnerable -- those companies where real wealth is created.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business