Geithner Interviewed By Bloomberg: Says Goldman Would Have Failed, Dismisses Tobin Tax (VIDEO)
During an interview this week on Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disputed claims made by Goldman Sachs...
During an interview this week on Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disputed claims made by Goldman Sachs...
Ellen Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
The response to volatile markets is not plain-vanilla financial products, but more complex products that use market mechanisms to cope with uncertainty. Plain vanilla can be as ugly as adjustable-rate mortgages.
Sony Kapoor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.
Kyle G. Brown | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business
The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
A little bit of populist retribution is overdue against the people who brought down the system -- and will bring it down again if the hegemony of the traders is not constrained.
Les Leopold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
We fought a war of independence to free us from aristocratic rule. Now an aristocracy of wealth is taking over, again, even after we watched it wreck the entire economy.
Posted 12.05.2009 | Business