It could be that President Obama is a small town guy after all. His early adulthood on the south side of Chicago is where he found a "small town" environment that embraced him.
Check out this powerful video and see why you should make it your New Year's resolution to move your money out of a "too big to fail bank" and into a community bank.
It will take more than a guilt trip to boost credit. With Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) joining JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) i...
As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job cre...
Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill.
More than half of the Democ...
We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.
Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.
How could there be any doubt that the CEO's company, or any responsible company for that matter, cares deeply about public sentiment and what is now commonly referred to as "Main Street?"
Arianna was on CNBC's "The Call" today to discuss the Move Your Money campaign. Host Larry Kudlow challenged the idea of switching money from big ban...
The Obama administration is developing a major initiative to tackle the economic and political problem of unemployment by getting federal bailout fund...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on public finances by the financial services sector w...
The Obama administration does not seem to understand that this rage, left unaddressed, could consume it. It has pushed aside the entreaties of many --...
On the one hand, the Dow Jones industrial average once again danced around 10,000 last week. If U.S. gross domestic product rebounds as expected on Oc...
Mad about the bank bailouts? Had enough of huge bonuses and too-big-to-fail apologies?
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Nearly a week ago, Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson launched the Move Your Money campaign urging Americans to s...
Populism is not so much a political stance (as "conservatism" is, for instance) as it is a political tactic. Meaning it can be used equally well by either side of our current American political divide.
There is a misplaced assumption that because African-Americans are more likely to be unemployed or poor, the policies designed to create jobs will benefit them evenly or in proportion to their disadvantage.
The Frank and Dodd regulatory reform bills are terribly drafted provisions which will strike a death blow to "main street" lenders and hand over a multi-trillion dollar mortgage market to a few large financial institutions.
Geithner is a continuing liability for this President. By stepping down, he can rightly claim some successes, while also presenting an opportunity for Obama to appoint a Treasury Secretary who fights for Main Street.
In Washington and on Main Street, politicians and voters are railing against Wall Street's multi- million-dollar pay packages. In the financial world,...
The future of the US is in a deep pile of dirty diapers if we willingly and knowingly continue to destroy capitalism by rewarding the behavior of failures.