The CEO leaders' focus on the federal budget deficit borders on compulsive obsession and illogically ignores the opportunity to borrow more to put more Americans to work, to strengthen, grow and build our country.
The Wall Street pay practice that has been described as a way to make banks safer is now set to enrich top executives. When banks are allowed to incre...
The attack on public employee unions has just begun and won't go away. With the disempowerment of labor in our society, any sociologist will tell you, the living standards of all working people will be lowered.
Why aim for greatness when mediocrity pays just as well? The financial crisis has changed a lot about our economy, but one thing remains a constant: P...
Obama and Geithner should know better than to expect gratitude from a bunch of narcissistic, delusional crybabies. Both parties to this toxic relationship -- the Wall Street bankers and administration officials -- deserve each other.
Some of the nation's biggest financial firms have increased the perks and benefits they pay their chief executives, despite the glaring spotlight from...
The Supreme Court has cast a mortal blow to accountability, transparency and ethical standards for corporate electoral activity by dismantling century-old restrictions.
This is a huge win for progressives, who have been up in arms for months over BofA's decision to continue its shamelessly greedy, predatory practices after receiving tens of billions in bailout funds.
We're told from many quarters that the humanities are in serious trouble now because of our tough economic times. But it's precisely a lack of ground...
NEW YORK, March 30 -- After ousting General Motors' chief executive, President Obama warned Monday that bankruptcy may be unavoidable for two American...
If you were going to make ten million dollars in bonuses for taking high risks with other people's money, would you do it? The answer invariably is -- hell yes!
Congressional efforts to impose stringent restrictions on executive compensation appeared to be evaporating yesterday as House and Senate negotiators ...
Memo to Wall Street: the old way of doing business is over if a company is on life support and needs a huge transfusion of federal taxpayer money to bail it out.
For years now I have been passionately arguing the need for the Jewish community to serve as a light unto the nations by promulgating our values to the non-Jewish world.
Wall Street's five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and ...
Louis XIV famously said, "L'etat, c'est moi," letting everyone know his centrality in France. Bruce Wasserstein needs no such pithy quotes to broadcas...