Triumph| More...
 

Meltdown

Is Mexico the Next Crisis?

Diane Francis | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Drug Trafficking, New Crisis, Politics, Instability, Obama Election Day, Crime, Obama Election Victory, Meltdown, Mexico, Felipe Calderone, Mexican Drug Cartels, Business, Barack Obama, Mexican Immigration, Economy, Politics News
Diane Francis

The day of Obama's election, Mexico's second-highest official in charge of other key drug interdiction officials died in a fiery jet crash. This may become the President-elect's first test and crisis.

Read Post

Declaring War on the Meltdown/Part 2: Taking on Debt For Infrastructure

Alan Fein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Politics, Obama, Mccain, Economic Crisis, Economy, Financial Meltdown, Meltdown, Infrastructure, Federal Deficit, Bailout, Barack Obama, National Infrastructure, Federal Debt, Financial Crisis, Congressional Bailout Package, 2008 Presidential Election, Business News
Alan Fein

In bad times like these, the government has to spend money to build things that we desperately need: roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, sanitation systems and a new energy infrastructure.

Read Post

The Meltdown We Really Can't Afford

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Mccain, Obama, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Meltdown, Climate Change, Green News
Kerry Trueman

While rivers and lakes all over the world are simply vanishing into the ether, something really insidious is bubbling up from the Arctic seabed.

Read Post

KCRW's Left, Right & Center 10.10.08/ECONOMY!

Huff Radio | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Free Markets, John McCain, Wall Street, Meltdown, Presidential Campaign, Credit Crisis, Barack Obama, Adam Smith, Economy, Presidential Debates, Media News
Huff Radio

This week, Arianna, Matthew, Robert and Tony debate the debate and the merits of capitalism.

Read Post

McCain, Media & Meltdown: A Witches' Brew for Election Violence

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, John McCain, Race, Brain's Hardwiring, Meltdown, Barack Obama, Foreign, Politics, 2008 Election, Politics News
Paul Abrams

When people leave a McCain rally telling reporters that Obama is a terrorist because "it's in his blood", the potential for violence is real.

Read Post

If We Can Nationalize Banks, Why Not Health Care?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Calamity, Healthcare System, Bush Administration, Nationalization, Bankruptcy, Health, Single Payer Healthcare System, Meltdown, Part Ownership, Nationalized, Collapsing Banks, US Banks, Self Ration, Healthcare, Hopsitals, Living News
Rose Ann DeMoro

On the heels of reports Thursday that the Bush Admin. is considering taking part ownership of banks, it's time to ask, why can't we have a similar approach for our collapsing healthcare system?

Read Post

Meltdown in the Desert

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Economy, Oil, Business, Kuwait, Recession, Al Qaeda, Dubai, Meltdown, Business News
Jamal Dajani

The demise of Wall Street has reached the Arabian Sahara and is threatening to put an end to its construction boom, which has flourished from several years of petro-bonanza.

Read Post

Iceland Is Melting!

Eric Lurio | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Federal Reserve, Election, Mortgage Meltdown, Subprime Mortgage Meltdown, Meltdown, Iceland, Home News
Eric Lurio

The two largest banks failed and trading of the six largest financial institutions was halted on the Reykjavik stock exchange. People have been bitching that McCain and Obama don't know what to do. But neither does anyone else.

Read Post

Don't touch the stock market

Diane Francis | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Warren Bufffett, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, FInancial Markets, Meltdown, Financial Meltdown, Rescue, Hedge Fund Collapse, Financial Crisis, Billionaires, Personal Finance, Economy, Mutual Funds, Dumping Stocks, Stock Investments, Federal Reserve, Housing Crisis, Business News
Diane Francis

Here's my latest warning: Do not be lulled into buying equities because there was a bounce in markets, where some losses were recouped. Or buying bec...

Read Post

John McCain: Economic Disaster

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Freddie Mac, Phil Gramm, Depression, John McCain, Bailout, Meltdown, Economy, Rick Davis, Financial Crisis, George Bush, Wall Street, Recession, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

McCain is being deceitful with his sudden populist message and support for regulation; his economic policies still favor our nation's wealthy elite.

Read Post

Defeating the Bailout Looks Like Another Republican Ploy

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street, Meltdown, Economy, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Henry Paulson, Obama Administration, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The GOP wanted the bailout to pass without many Republican votes so they could blame the majority and milk it in the remaining weeks until the election.

Read Post

Wall Street's Moral Rot Spreads To Politics, Society

Dick Meyer | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Why We Hate Us, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Dick Meyer, Wall Street, Meltdown, Economy, Media, 2008 Election, Politics News
Dick Meyer

How likely is it that politics and journalism are less susceptible to greed and shortsightedness than finance? Is Wall Street an aberration or a mirror?

Read Post

The Meltdown is McCain's...Dems Rush to Stop Hedge Funds Collapse Oct. 1

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hedge Funds Collapse, Levine, D'Antoni, Bush, Mccain, Meltdown, Economy, Politics News
Tom D'Antoni

If anyone doubted that John McCain will do anything to get elected -- including picking an inept fundamentalist to be his Veep because it could energi...

Read Post

Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Need a Timeout to Fix the Economy

ZP Heller | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Brave New Foundation, Depression, Meltdown, Nancy Pelosi, Economy, Meet the Bloggers, 2008 Election, Recession, Main Street, Roberto Lovato, Mortgages, Henry Paulson, Barack Obama, Bailout, Robert Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias, Banks, Financial Crisis, Washington George Bush, Wall Street, John McCain, Rick Davis, Phil Gramm, Politics News
ZP Heller

Pelosi has made a difference in negotiating this bailout while still managing to speak directly with the public (imagine that!).

Read Post

John McCain Antics -- Thursday 25 September, 2008

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Letterman, Scared Bush, Presidential Debate, John McCain, Bush, Vp Debate, Meltdown, Surrogate Talking Points, Obama, Mccain, Bob Dylan, Letterman Video, Postponing Debate, McCain Campaign, Mccain and Letterman, Blood on the Tracks, Barack Obama 2008, Evasion, Patriotism, Katie Couric, Superpower, Barack, Avoiding Debate, Idiot Wind, Financial Crisis, Antics, Guerrilla War, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose John McCain is engaged in a hypocritical effort to preempt the narrative of this Presidential contest. Today I shall try to carry ...

Read Post

U.S. Monkeys Guard Financial Bananas

Diane Francis | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Meltdown, 9/11, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Economy, Business News
Diane Francis

America's financial 9/11 was self-inflicted as a result of by a stupid regime which believes in the dogma of the jungle.

Read Post

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gaffe, Bugliosi, Markets, Don Siegleman, Bail Out, Feinstein, Mark Pryor, Steve Bradbury, Fisa, Mccain, Campaign, Mary Landrieu, Difi, Sarah Palin, Offshore Drilling, Nation of Whiners, Bailout, 2008, National Security, Constitutional Rights, Midotw, Paris Hilton Energy Plan, Drilling, Gang of 10, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Kent Conrad, Torture Memo, Rove, Energy, Gang of Ten, Executive, Democrat, Basketball, Feingold, Joe Biden, 08, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Blue Ribbon Commission, Mddotw, Wiretapping, Charles Manson, Crisis, Financial, Dnc, Spain, Warrantless, Russ Feingold, Gramm, Ben Nelson, Gang of 20, Vincent Bugliosi, Economy, Meltdown, John Yoo, Middle Class, Vermont, Regulation, Democratic, Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Media, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Bush, Savings and Loan, Siegelman, Office of Legal Counsel, Playbook, Phil Gramm, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Progressive Party, Yoo, Ken Salazar, Fat Cats, Gang of Twenty, Mental Recession, Keating Five, John McCain, Karl Rove, Rules, Msm, Attorney General, Count the Lies, 2008 Elections, Contempt, 2008 Election, Tom Carper, Oil Companies, Senior Moment, Murder, Charlotte Dennett, Blanche Lincoln, Tim Johnson, Progressive, 08 Campaign, Wall Street, Rulebook, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Oil, Deregulation, Torture, Prosecute, Manson, Dennett, Olc, Politics News
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...

Read Post