Goldman Backlash Good News For Volcker Rule
* Departing exec's editorial calls out treatment of clients * Reform advocates say shows need for tough Volcker rule * S...
* Departing exec's editorial calls out treatment of clients * Reform advocates say shows need for tough Volcker rule * S...
AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday faulted the White House and fellow Democrats for mischaracterizing provisi...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 10.30.2011
DETROIT — A federal judge in Grand Rapids sentenced two recent college graduates to 30 days in jail for protesting U.S. Sen. Carl Levin's stance...
Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 09.20.2011
I’ve been in and out of DC a few times in recent weeks and one thing I keep hearing is that there is a growing, and real, possibility that a second ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has put forward a baseline number of troops that the president must announ...
Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 07.11.2011
They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few ...
Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011
Ferguson spoke with me about his new film, Obama's disappointingly silent reaction to it and why he feels this president has an even stricter "with us or against us" policy than his predecessor.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) responded on Sunday to a report that he was the target of "psychological operations" by the U.S. military to...
Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Joe Lieberman and several Democratic senators are holding a press conference Thursday morning "to bring this vote up."
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
It's hard to understand why Erik Prince is mad. His company, Xe, is once again able to bid on and get contracts with the government and won't be subject to criminal charges.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) joined a well-documented list of famous people who have taken pies in the face Monday, when a Michigan State student h...
Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011
Criminal behavior. No trust. Reputation destroyed. No customers. I expect Goldman Sachs to be out of business by the end of this year and maybe before the November election. That's just my opinion, of course.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011
After all the suffering caused by the massive layoffs and home foreclosures that have devastated communities, the best our elite journalists can do is tell us that they have no way to discern who is lying and who is telling the truth?
BusinessWeek | Ryan J. Donmoyer | Posted 05.25.2011
Blackstone Group LP and other firms protesting a plan by Congress to increase taxes on executives of investment partnerships are focusing on what they...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
As much as we welcome these helpful changes coming from Secretary Gates and his DOD General Counsel, interim steps are not a substitute for repeal.
Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011
Dodd has said that he will unveil his new bill on Monday. Take your time Senator. Get it right this time. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of the world may depend on it.
Rick Jacobs | Posted 05.25.2011
The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins threatened that America "might have to return to the draft" if it allows gays and lesbians to serve openly, because so many soldiers would quit or never enlist.
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.25.2011
Our gay service members need assurances that Congress will end the only Federal law that legitimizes discrimination against a particular class of people this year, rather than phasing it out over several years.
Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...
The Plumline | Posted 05.25.2011
There's some important news about Dick Cheney and torture in a speech that Senator Carl Levin gave before the Foreign Policy Administration this week....
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.
William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011
On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional report blaming high-level officials of the Bush Administration for employing harsh interrogation techniques...
Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama will fail if he tries anything "inside the box." The only way he's going to pull us out of this multifaceted manure pile is by being open to big bold ideas and then taking Herculean steps.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
**UPDATE** The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS will close private-banking operations for U.S. clients: A UBS AG executive told a U.S. Senate pa...
Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012