Wall Street's Designer-Dressed Thieves
Open the phonebook and randomly pick the name of a stockbroker or a bank president. Call that person and ask them to explain to you how a synthetic or a derivative actually works.
Open the phonebook and randomly pick the name of a stockbroker or a bank president. Call that person and ask them to explain to you how a synthetic or a derivative actually works.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Roger Ailes understands what other TV executives miss. He remembers that P.T. Barnum built his business around high-wire acts and circus freaks.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Conservative political policies have been built around the manipulation of that ugly quality called victim blame. They are brilliant in that they have freed us from the responsibility of being our brother's keeper.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Napolitano can't afford to understate the seriousness of the swine flu, even though America has been abused by politically motivated scare tactics for eight years.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Where do washed up celebrities go once they realize that their career is in the tank? They become celebrity spokesmen for the Republican National Committee.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home
Since 1935, an organization calling itself "The Family" has been able to operate unnoticed in the Beltway. But that invisibility is disappearing because of the sensational sex lives of Mark Sanford and John Ensign.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Fringe Democrats looked ridiculous when they suggested McCain wasn't eligible to be president because he was born in Panama. The grown-ups in Democratic leadership put a quick end to that.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
There will be no serious health care reform until the drug companies, the hospital corporations and the HMO industry are forced to pay their share of the bill.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
U.S. relations with the Saudi royal family trumped the importance of 3,000 9-11 murders. That was the opinion of the U.S. State Department during the...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
For months, Conservatives have been in search of an attack issue to rally around. They've also been desperately searching for someone credible to lead...
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Drug companies showed a profit of 80 billion dollars last year while the health care industry collected 13 billion in profits. Life is good, and they are spreading all those billions around to the Democrats.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
As you read this column, court hearings in Ecuador are taking place where Chevron stands potentially responsible for $25 billion in damages to Ecuador's waterways and aquifers.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
You have to wonder why a group of teenage Democrats have been told that their kind are not welcome at Liberty, a campus that was built in part from the money of Sun Myung Moon.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Rather than two convictions, non-Gitmo prosecutors have had 148 successful trials and convictions of terrorists.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green
Birds, sea lions, and iguanas take from their surroundings only what they need to live. On the other hand, the more evolved human is locus-like in the way they interact with their community.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business