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 09.21.2009 | Media
Democrats have made progress with their leadership management skills. Here is what they have figured out: When your opposition is burning down, don't get involved.
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 | Media
About an hour's drive from where I live, a miserable 60-year old man by the name of Donnie Baker murdered two Chilean college students and wounded fiv...
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 05.22.2009 | Politics
If you were a California teabagger dressed up like Paul Revere you probably would have felt ridiculous once you learned that 11 billion in revenues left the state to places like the Cayman Islands.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
What is most frustrating about the Mexican drug war chaos is figuring out the truth about whether all that drug violence is moving across the borders.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
Ted Stevens never should have been prosecuted in 2008. Traditional media has done a pitiful job covering the many political prosecution stories that occurred during the Ashcroft/Gonzales years.
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 04.20.2009 | Media
Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media
The analysis on Rush is easy. Historically, he has had zero impact on the outcome of elections. The truth is, Limbaugh's political influence is not vast at all.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
As Sullenberger continues to speak out, he should make it clear that all the pilots and crews who are still operating in the deregulated airline industry are truly heroes.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media
If Limbaugh could step out of his 25,000 square foot home and see the pain of parents telling their children that they just lost their home, maybe then he would want Obama to succeed.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business