As bad as it's going to be for the compromising Democrats in this election, it will be a bloodbath if the economic scene comes unglued -- because then, the racist nonsense in Arizona will look like a picnic.
Sue Allon | Posted 05.25.2011
Franken's measure was creative, but the diverse range of qualifications among the approved rating agencies is frightening to contemplate if a random assignment was the norm.
Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011
As Obama today returns to Cooper Union to reprise his arguments for financial regulatory reform, we know this: whatever the ultimate legal merits of the SEC's case against Goldman Sachs, the political impact now will be a game changer.
Pamela Banks | Posted 05.25.2011
Mortgages with skyrocketing interest rates and other hidden costs. Unregulated financial markets slipping through the cracks--the list of reasons for ...
Joe Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Dodd's proposed financial reform bill creates a consumer protection watchdog, a financial oversight council to monitor systemic risk and a new office to oversee credit rating agencies.
Amy Hertz | Posted 12.09.2011
It's the end of the month and we're wrapping up the conversation on our March HuffPost book club pick on rebuilding capitalism from the wreck of the financial crisis.
Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Chris Dodd has good political antennae. He knows that his financial reform bill will come under severe pressure because it has a weak heart -- the provisions that deal with "too big to fail" are simply "too weak to make any sense."
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011
We live in a three card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is.
SAFER | Posted 05.25.2011
Jane D'Arista and Gerald Epstein SAFER and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts, Amherst Senator Dodd has filed a...
Heather Booth | Posted 05.25.2011
With the bankers all over Capitol Hill advocating for these reforms, it is entirely unnecessary that anyone else do so. There is no need to find out more about the bill, or to contact your congressman.
Andrew Redleaf | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Dodd should stop playing tough guy with the banks and do something they would really hate -- make them tell the truth.
Huffington Post | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, Sen. Christopher Dodd will unveil his financial regulatory reform legislation to the Senate Banking Committee. Based on some predictions, the b...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011
We're not likely to get sufficient reform this year. But, if a few legislators pay the penalty for taking the bank lobby money and voting the bank lobby program -- things may get a lot simpler next year.
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 05.25.2011
The big national news story on Wednesday was that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) would not seek reelection for his senate seat, a position he has held for nearly three decades.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
HARTFORD, Conn. — Christopher Dodd was expected to announce his retirement Wednesday after five terms in the U.S. Senate and Connecticut's popul...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
As you have no doubt heard by now, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) will not be seeking a sixth term in office. My first reaction: Good riddance. Whi...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011
A new agency is essential. If Republicans want to stand with banks rather than consumers, let them. Bring the bill up, let Republicans filibuster it. Take that argument into the fall elections.
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as consumers suffer the housing crisis and an abysmal job market, they face the prospect of hundreds or even thousands more dollars of credit card debt because of Congress.
Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 05.25.2011
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, one of the few senators to publicly support full marriage equality, will announce today that he is bowing out of the N...
Matt Browner Hamlin | Posted 05.25.2011
Teddy never did endorse Senator Dodd for president, and I can't imagine how that may have hurt him. If it did, he never showed it to his staff -- and so people like me who worked for Dodd briefly bore a grudge that our boss would not.
Senate Guru | Posted 05.25.2011
It's seemingly unanimous among observers of the 2010 Senate races that the most vulnerable incumbent Democratic Senator next year is Senator Dodd. Here are six reasons why Dodd will win re-election.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate ethics panel cleared Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad Friday of breaking rules by getting mortgages through a VIP progra...
Kim Stagliano | Posted 05.25.2011
You well know that tens of millions of Americans without health insurance remain sleepless when they or a loved one become ill. And I know you're fighting to change that. Thank you.
David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011
There's ironclad proof that Sen. Dodd's accuser in a mortgage scandal lied from the start. But some reporters aren't interested in facts that undercut the scandal narrative.
Nancy Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011
We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 05.25.2011