Once again the 'bipartisan' consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome regulations' that do nothing of value -- nothing, that is, except prevent catastrophes.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.23.2012
We can't know for sure what's behind these oil prices. But what we can know is that we don't know -- and that our government should have the resources to track these markets and intervene when they're being misused.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.09.2012
Although when it comes to the specific date of our mass death, Harold Camping might as well be talking Chinese nuclear development with Herman Cain, i...
Robert Scheer | Posted 12.13.2011
No doubt many reasonable Americans will view Obama as the lesser evil come election time, and for some that will prove compelling. But I take the dreary choices to be one akin to a form of slow torture. Better to support the Occupy Wall Street protests as an inspiring alternative.
Jim Worth | Posted 11.24.2011
The right continues to push U.S. into a deep financial abyss! Holding Republicans responsible for the damage they've caused over the past three decad...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- Texas Governor Rick Perry's ties to Swiss banking giant UBS go beyond his relationship with former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas). Perry's cu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 10.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Two weeks before Thanksgiving in 2003, top officials from Texas Governor Rick Perry's office pitched an unusual offer to the state's ret...
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 10.17.2011
The national press loves to fall in love, and Perry had a nice 72-hour honeymoon before his shoot-from-the-lip style, which works in Amarillo, Abilene and around Austin, backfired with Bernanke. Big time.
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.13.2011
No one in the top 5 of the Ames Straw Poll has any real chance of leading a 2012 GOP ticket. Iowa is making itself irrelevant in the hard political choice department.
Jim Worth | Posted 08.17.2011
The U.S. economy is surviving only because of over-stimulation. We're living on fumes in this country, and the pursuit of happiness has come to an end for millions of families.
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011
Paul Volcker, President Obama's former Federal Reserve chair who heads his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, recently nailed it in a series of blistering remarks on the sorry state of our economy.
Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011
In my previous post, I wrote this: The fundamental differences between the left and the right -- between conservatives and progressives -- comes down ...
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama gained credibility through sacking Gen. Stanley McChrystal for making untoward remarks. Why not sack Summers and Geithner for untoward policies that have inflicted such misery on the general public?
David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011
Rejecting the capitalist values of choice and personal accountability, Greenspan filters history through an intellectual construct where no one -- most notably Alan Greenspan -- ever takes the blame.
Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011
In the past 24 hours, Dodd appears to have been going to bat for Wall Street, not out of concern for any greater political good, but exclusively for the purpose of padding the profits of big banks.
John Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
It's obvious that trial modifications and loan forebearances -- the main thrust of the administration's Home Affordable Modification Program -- are just delaying foreclosures that are dragging down economic recovery efforts.
Posted 05.25.2011
Denver Mayor and Gubernatorial Candidate John Hickenlooper stopped by David Sirota's radio show on AM 760 Thursday. (the show can be heard in its ent...
AP | SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN – ranging from charges of voter r...
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the widespread involvement of UBS in what the Justice Department alleges were efforts to violate U.S. tax laws, it must be asked: Did Gramm have no inkling about what was going on?
Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
There once were usury laws in this country to limit such shamelessness. I wonder where they went?
The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, UBS announced a 2nd Quarter loss "due to restructuring charges." The banking giant is raising $3.45 billion in a stock sale. Partly owned ...
Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.
Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of putting those responsible for the financial crisis in jail, why did we give them huge sums of our hard-earned tax dollars. Bernard Madoff is nothing more than the scab on the wound.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011
Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.
David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of pinpointing culpability among the key players, Time deflects blame away from Republicans and falsely implicates Democrats, to create a muddleheaded "plenty-of-blame-to-go-around" narrative.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.22.2012