House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank is backing his colleagues in the upper chamber who have called for an end to the practice of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The directors of the Federal Reserve regional banks are selected by the very banks that the Fed is supposed to regulate. It's a bizarre entanglement o...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
There were those who expected the financial-services industry to slink away in embarrassment after the setbacks of the past year. These people misjudged us.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The health care reform compromise that centrist Democrats and several Republicans have indicated they'd support has shown an inability to effectively ...
Eric Alterman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
The position of many health reform opponents in Congress is that America has "the finest health care in the world now." I decided to look at just how well we are doing health care wise.
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.
Think Progress | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) why he believes the Obama administration is "taking us down the r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Legislation to give Congress greater oversight of the Federal Reserve was severely watered down on the Senate floor Wednesday in private negotiations ...
The Hill | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, thinks the government should keep the results of bank "stres...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
Senate negotiators worked through the weekend to come up with a bipartisan compromise on reform legislation that seeks to rein in deceptive credit car...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
The framework of the forthcoming battle over Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick began to materialize on Sunday, as a range of Republican officials sent...
The Hill | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
Controversy over a $35 billion Air Force midair refueling tanker contract is spilling into the confirmation of the Pentagon's next acquisition chief. ...
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Why, after all this time, in this moment of desperate urgency, can't poor Tim fill senior positions at the Treasury Department?
Judith Ellis | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb addresses some very important issues in an interview with CNBC. On my blog I have written more than a few posts on this brillian...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
This week, just like the stock market (funny how that goes), Republicans hit yet a new low.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics
Even if we've made strides in accomplishing a decent level of social comfort and affability, we have some ways to go before truly claiming a complete, unconditional truce on the subject of race.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.25.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Richard Shelby's spokesman said the Cullman Times report in which he appears to question President Obama's citizenship is a "distortion" and t...
CBS | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, on Wednesday lambasted Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner'...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
This "agreement" is just another part of the recent "Bush/Cheney Revisionist History Farewell Tour." It was created to fail, just as long as that failure didn't happen while Bush was still president.
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Southern states have been benefiting from Northern taxes for years. If they start another War Between the States, the Federal gravy train might suddenly stop at the Mason-Dixon line.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Before the Democrats give in to the demands of red state senators who foolishly think they will gain something if they force Detroit into bankruptcy, I hope that the Democratic leadership makes them filibuster.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A $14 billion emergency bailout for U.S. automakers collapsed in the Senate Thursday night after the United Auto Workers refused to...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
And now, it's on to the Senate! The House today passed, 237 to 170, HR 7321, the automotive loan bailout bill, and has sent it on to the Senate. H...
Billy Kimball | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
The plan, dubbed the "Unprecedented Winter Sales Event" in internal company documents, was reportedly the brainchild of a marketing team at Chrysler, the most beleaguered of the Big Three.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics