Bill Gates said on Wednesday he believes Wall Street pay is "often too high" and that U.S. government ownership of American International Group Inc wo...
Bruce Judson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The modern history of finance, combined with ever advancing technology, shows that the locus of the next crisis is not predictable. We will always be regulating to prevent the causes of yesterday's failure.
Matt Bivens | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
$300 million could eradicate smallpox, history's greatest killer of humans -- yet the same sum wouldn't cover the bonus pool for the executives of the insurance company AIG after its great meltdown.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
At the beginning of the year GDP was dropping and we were bleeding jobs at 600,000/month. Given that, we're not going to rebound to a 3% growth rate in a few months; it's just not going to happen.
Larry Flynt | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. It's time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.
Harry Smith | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
I was in Nantucket over the weekend, and I have to say I was impressed by the large number of private jets parked on the tarmac at the local airport. The rich are still doing okay.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
When Obama starts focusing on policies with the simple test -- does it benefit poor and middle class people, or does it benefit Goldman and Morgan? -- he will start getting moving the country's economy forward.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Goldman Sachs has openly, blatantly gone back to business as usual, knowing they will be bailed out by taxpayers if their high rolling gambles don't work, and they don't care who knows about it.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
Apparently the only thing Goldman learned from the financial collapse was that the government would bail it out if it kept taking big gambles, which isn't the lesson I was hoping it would learn.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Why does it scare me so much that Goldman Sachs made big money this last quarter? Because of how they made it.
The Nation | Christopher Hayes | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
If there's one thing that everyone seems to agree on, it's that the current financial crisis is complicated. There's two problems with this. First, it...
The Hill | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
The government could lose out on more than $2 billion if federal officials continue to undervalue part of the financial bailout package, a government ...
Mike Lux | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
I want Obama to succeed, but it's not going to happen unless he (a) wrenches the control of the economy away from the greedy, and (b) confronts the greedy directly.
ABC News | CHARLES HERMAN and ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
Govt. May Spend More than $4 Trillion but Economy Faces 'Prolonged Weakness,' Oversight Panel Reports...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Bu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Robert Gibbs had to know it was coming. The press briefing on Monday was sure to focus on an apparent double standard from the administration when it ...
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff and Dina Fine Maron | Posted 04.22.2009 | Business
There was plenty of outrage on Capitol Hill last week over the executive bonuses paid out by AIG after getting federal bailout money. But another mone...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
If the American people come to see the Obama administration as complicit in Wall Street's unethical behavior, then Obama's entire economic program could end up in shambles.
Paul Hipp | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
Don't you kind of feel like someone at AIG needs to go to jail? Or maybe lots of people at AIG need to go to jail?
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
It would be a bit disturbing if a president who has said he wants to hear the widest range of opinions on important issues would want to dismiss those who write blog posts.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business
In order not to spook markets, Obama and a small team of financial commandos needs to orchestrate a sneak attack on the Zombie Banks.
Michael K. Farr | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business
Would the market reaction have been any different if Geithner had expressed complete confidence in his new plan?
McClatchy | Lisa Zagaroli | Posted 03.11.2009 | Business
A tax decision that made it a better deal for Wells Fargo & Co. to purchase Wachovia Corp. would be eliminated by the economic stimulus bill being con...
AP | FRANK BASS and RITA BEAMISH | Posted 03.04.2009 | Business
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs ...
AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — We may never know whether the government's $700 billion bailout of the financial industry worked, according to a new report from co...
Reuters | Michelle Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business