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John "Nuke Bailout" Bryson Must Not Be Secretary of Energy

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Solartopia, Bailout, Secretary of Energy, Barack Obama, Deregulation, Green Energy, Nuclear Power, SoCalEd, Southern California Edison, California Public Utilities Commision, Pacific Gas and Electric, Gray Davis, Enron, CPUC, John Bryson, Sustainable Energy, Pete Wilson, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Ralph Canvanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council, Electric Power, Greenwashing, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Long gone from Southern California Edison, John Bryson's ascent to head the Department of Energy would send a disastrous signal to those who are committed to a post fossil/nuclear future.

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The Supermajority and the S&P 500

Ron Galloway | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Democratic Congress, Wal-Mart, Enron, Stock Market, Barack Obama, Wall Street Crisis, 2008 Election, Business News
Ron Galloway

As it becomes more clear that Democrats will be in charge, I believe the market is reacting to what it sees as a looming anti-business environment.

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Whatever Happened To "The Magic Of The Marketplace" And "The Invisible Hand?"

Sandy Goodman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, George Will, Enron, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Invisible Hand, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, President Bush, Government, Adam Smith, Economy, Business News
Sandy Goodman

Many Americans still believe in the myth of the always perfect free market, in the face of irrefutable, worldwide evidence that there are times when it completely fails.

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The Mines are Full of Canaries

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Muriel Siebert, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Options, Derivatives, Swaps, Enron, Greenspan, Washington Post, The Lessons of Enron, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Senate Subcomittee on Investigations, Bailout, Levitt, Brooksley E. Born, Market Crisis, Rubin, Long Term Capital Management, Futures, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

We need a new guard, who know the system but didn't build it. Don't let anyone tell you they're not out there. They've been there for years.

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The Smartest Guys on Wall Street

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Sarah Palin, Enron, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

We seem to have learned nothing from Enron. And we probably won't learn anything from the latest Wall Street catastrophe either.

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Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

Read More: SAS Institute, Enron, Easter Seals, Green Edge, Patagonia, Green Mountain Coffee, Jeff Skoll, World, Worldcom, Work, Tom Kuntz, Doubleday, Saving, Environment, Stanford, Century 21, Tim Sanders, Google, Timberland, Juma, Interface, Aveda, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Tim Sanders visited with me in New York today on a tour to promote his new book, Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go...

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What Did My Son Die For?

John Scripsick | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, John McCain, Blackwater, Halliburton, Enron, President Bush, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Home News
John Scripsick

Author's son died in Iraq. He died because of the Bush administration's shoddy anti-terrorism operations before 9/11, and after 9/11 so fat cats could become richer.

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A Nation of Village Idiots

James Moore | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: A Nation of Village Idiots, U.S. Economy, Phil Gramm, Mccain Phil Gramm, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Charles Keating, Enron, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Keating Five, Savings and Loan Scandal, Socialists, Business News
James Moore

Don't let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It's not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy.

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The Convention As Seen From The Couch

Paul Peete | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Cable Television, Msnbc, Barack Obama, Mccain, Cnn, Democratic National Convention, Enron, Fox News, C-Span, Fox, Special Orders Speeches, Home News
Paul Peete

As I watched the speeches and the various events unfold throughout the day on C-Span, I could enjoy the event free of the inane anchor comments that endlessly fill the airwaves.

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Would You Really Buy a Mortgage From John McCain?

Johann Hari | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Phil Gramm, Phil Gramm Enron, Jon Stewart, John McCain Economics, Economy, Nation of Whiners, Enron, Credit Crunch, John McCain Phil Gramm, Phil Gramm Credit Crunch, Politics News
Johann Hari

McCain has Herbert Hoovered-up his slivers of economic theory from this man -- but who is Phil Gramm? His chuckle-headed ideological fanaticism nearly brought the global economy down -- twice.

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McCain Owes Us More Than Gramm's Resignation

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gramm Economic Policy, Insider Baseball, Ken Lay, Snake, Phil Gramm, John McCain, Patricia Kilday Hart, Enron, Varmint, Black-Hearted Varmint, John McCain's Gramm Gamble, Lay, Nation of Whiners, Whiners, Gramm, McCain Distances Himself From Gramm, Texas Observer, John McCain Phil Gramm, Phil Gramm Mental Recession, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

McCain wants us to put him in charge of the world's leading economy, but he is outsourcing his intellectual and philosophical responsibilities in that area. It seems to be part of who he is, just like Bush.

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FNMA Is Making Enron Executives Look Good

Ron Galloway | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Enron, Henry Paulson, Economy, Corruption, Fannie Mae Bailout, Freddie Mac, Fanny May, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Fnma, Business News
Ron Galloway

FNMA executives gamed the system to enrich themselves by exposing the American taxpayer to their company risk. It is the biggest financial scandal we'll ever see.

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Regulation is Not a Bad Word

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bear Stearns, Phil Gramm, Financial Neocons, Indymac, Deregulation, Republican, Enron, Fannie Mae, Regulation, Radical Deregulation, Freddy Mac, John McCain, Financial Radicals, Socialists, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

McCain and Gramm are financial radicals who have taken over the system. The idea of putting them back in charge is absolutely unthinkable.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nation of Whiners, Phil Gramm, John McCain, S&L Crisis, Enron, Obama Lack of Experience, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Phil Gramm obviously had the quote of the week. Voters dealing with skyrocketing gas prices and collapsing home values just love being called "whiners" by a millionaire. This kind of out-of-touch condescension comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Gramm's career. He's left his fingerprints on some of the worst economic debacles in U.S. history. He was a champion of energy deregulation, which gave us Enron and blackouts and price gouging. He was a champion of deregulating the savings-and-loan industry, the bailout of which cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And his leadership on banking deregulation helped create the current sub-prime mortgage crisis. Republicans love to talk about Obama's lack of experience. I'll take fresh blood over Gramm's kind of track record any day of the week.

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Bush/McCain's Gas Price Scam is an Enron Re-Run

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Efficiency, Enron, Solartopia, Renewable Energy, Mccain, California Electric Rates, Offshore Drilling, Bush, High Gas Prices, Atomic Energy, High Food Prices, Solar Energy, Utility Deregulation, Harvey Wasserman, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Today, despite years of grassroots advocacy, Bush has done everything in his power to squelch the conversion to a green-powered economy.

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News
Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Court Hears Appeal of Enron's Skilling

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Jeffrey Skilling, Financial Stability, Skilling Appeal, Enron, Business News

NEW ORLEANS — Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling, convicted for his role in the once might energy giant's collapse, took risks when he ran ...

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Citi Settles Enron Suit for $1.66B

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Mega Claims Lawsuit, Mega Claims, Citigroup, Enron Creditors Recovery Corp, Enron, Citigroup Enron, Business News

NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $1.66 billion to creditors of Enron Corp. who lost money when the energy trader collapsed in 2...

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Bankers Each Get 37 Months in Enron Case

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Enron Suit, Andrew Fastow, Enron Scam, Enron Scandal, Enron, Enron Case, Business News

HOUSTON — Three British bankers were sentenced Friday to just over three years in prison for their roles in a fraudulent scheme with former Enro...

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Supreme Court Tosses Enron Bankers Suit, Dooms Other Cases

Los Angeles Times | David G. Savage | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Merrill Lynch, Enron Dismissal, Enron Suit, University of California, Enron, Enron Case, Business News

The Supreme Court today dismissed a huge lawsuit growing out of the Enron debacle that sought to hold Wall Street bankers liable for scheming with the...

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