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Fiancial Crisis

Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Microcredit, Elinor Ostrom, Workplace, Financial Services, France, Elizabeth Warren, Sexism, Obama Administration, Sheila Baer, Feminism, Mad Men, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.

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Bernanke Approves Savings Banks for the Poor in the US

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Grassroots Banking, Yunus, Poverty, North Carolina Employee's Credit Union, Economy, Bernanke, Poor, Microcredit, Grameen America, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Grameen will apply to act as a savings bank and will be partners with the largest Credit Union in the country to provide microcredit for the poor in the US.

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Democrats Go Down on the Auto Bailout

John Ridley | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Layoffs, Cars, Chrysler, Auto Bailout Failure, Job Cuts, Gm, Ford, Automaker Bailout, Automakers, Congress, Senate Democrats, Democrats, Fiancial Crisis, Economy, Politics News
John Ridley

Passage of the $15 billion dollar bailout package for Detroit auto makers is far from a done deal. But should it pass, know that it did so because Democrats yet again folded like cheap lawn chairs.

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Failure is Not an Option [* Some Exceptions Apply]

Patt Morrison | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Layoffs, Cars, Chrysler, Job Cuts, Gm, Ford, Automaker Bailout, Automakers, Congress, Fiancial Crisis, Economy, Politics News
Patt Morrison

Does this GOP retusal to tolerate subsidized failure mean the Republicans will give me my Iraq war tax money back? It might just have a better shot at success in Detroit than it did in Baghdad.

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$14 billion auto bailout dies in Senate

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Fiancial Crisis, Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Gm, Economy, Ford, Cars, Congress, Richard Shelby, Job Cuts, Business News

WASHINGTON — A $14 billion emergency bailout for U.S. automakers collapsed in the Senate Thursday night after the United Auto Workers refused to...

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