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Where Are The Shareholders?

Norman Goldman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Say on Pay, Gramm, Tort Reform, Bailout, Wall Street, Corporation, Shareholder, Congress, Bonuses, Tarp, Business News
Norman Goldman

We need corporate reform by way of requiring all shareholders to approve all pay of all executives at all publicly traded corporations. Only then will this looting insanity end.

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Sex, Spitzer, Derivatives: Using Our Outrage

Ari Melber | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gramm, Dorgan, Derivatives, Bank, Spitzer, Deregulation, 2008 Campaign, Bank Regulation, Glass-Steagall Act, Gao, Glass-Steagall, New York-New York, Politics News
Ari Melber

In a galling demonstration of Washington's tangled priorities, leaders in both parties still refuse to tap Eliot Spitzer's expertise for policymaking and enforcement in the current crisis.

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AIG, Populist Rage, and the Future of Banks

Howard Schweber | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Freddie Mac, Aig, Gramm, Populist Rage, Bailout, Bank Nationalization, Derivatives, Banking Regulation, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bonuses, Geithner, Fannie Mae, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Howard Schweber

Lately the torches-and-pitchforks voices have begun to drown out serious discussion. Time to take a deep breath or two: populist rage is a rotten basis for policy-making.

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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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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Phil Gramm Is Conservatism

Bill Scher | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservatism, Gramm, Economy, Phil Gramm Mccain, U.S. Economy, Phil Gramm, Conservatives, Politics News
Bill Scher

This is conservatism. The insistence that your economic dissatisfaction is illegitimate, and can only be explained by a brainwashing from the media or politicians

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The Medical System Meltdown

Paul Peete | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Universal Health Care, Obama, Mccain, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Emergency Room Death, Gramm, Esmin Green, Edith Rodriguez, Health, Kings County Hospital Center, Home News
Paul Peete

If McCain is allowed to determine our future medical care, we will continue to suffer as a nation from a system designed to cater to only the smallest percentage of the very most wealthy people on earth.

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Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Carter Glass, Gramm, Carbon Bank, Cdo, Vanguard, Clean Energy, Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Jack Brennan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Energy Efficiency Index, Morgan Stanley, Lehman, Phil Gramm, ABN Amro, Bear Stearns, Glass-Steagall, Brennan, Ceres, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.

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