Financial Crisis Commission Chair: 'The Investigative Work Is Underway'
The federal commission created to investigate the roots of the financial crisis has begun its review of documents and will announce next week a series...
The federal commission created to investigate the roots of the financial crisis has begun its review of documents and will announce next week a series...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...
David Woolner | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
In the 1930s, people wanted to know why Wall Street crashed; what brought on the Depression; why the banks collapsed; and why they were out of a job. So Congress launched a formal inquiry.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
I generally don't think much of high-powered congressional commissions, seeing as they typically exist as busy work done after a disaster to offset th...
LA Times | Michael Hiltzik | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
With the appointment today of the 10 members of a congressional commission to investigate the financial meltdown, many people are hoping that the spir...
William K. Black | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
A commission like the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission can be unwieldy and political. It cannot be non-partisan, it cannot be unified, and it is extremely difficult to make it effective.
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 | Silla Brush and Jared Allen | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
Democratic and Republican leaders have yet to nominate a single person to the high-profile commission aimed at investigating the financial crisis, eve...
Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Business