Wall Street Crash

From Wall Street to Neverland: The Year America Didn't Sleep

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


Qanta Ahmed, MD

The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.

Want to Close Guantanamo? No Problem

Kathy Rose | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Kathy Rose

Why is everyone making such a fuss about where to move the men who are still at Guantanamo? I have the solution. I live in a huge anonymous apartment building in Manhattan...

Hallelujah, Salvation Is At Hand! Or Is It?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.

How Bear Markets End

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business


Henry Blodget

The bear phases of these markets lasted from 3-30 months (we're currently in month 17). The drop from 1929-1932 was also about 30 months.

The Secret Formula That Destroyed Wall Street

Wired | Felix Salmon | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business


A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists--even Wal...

The Oscars: Party Like It's 1929 ...

Martin Lewis | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment


Martin Lewis

Perhaps we can celebrate in the same spirit that inhabited that first Oscars at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in May 1929, just 5 months before the whole world slid into the economic abyss.

The Crash of Flight 1549: Maybe the Best Metaphor for 2009 We Could Hope For

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home


Raymond Leon Roker

Maybe the story of this jet crash is exactly the real life fable we needed seared into our nation's consciousness. What if yesterday's "miracle" was a perfect metaphor for 2009?

Obama: Vacation's End

William Bradley | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

Obama's vacation ends like many of ours have over the years. With pleasant memories behind and significant problems ahead.

The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II and the Crash of '08

Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...

What Recession?

Lauren Cahn | Posted 01.16.2009 | Style


Lauren Cahn

My question to anyone who cares to answer is: who is out there buying the Louboutin pumps? The Vivier booties? The Hermes scarves, the Chloe bags? Is it you? Or anyone you know?

Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business


Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

My Interview With Noam Chomsky on the Economy

Ben Cohen | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business


Ben Cohen

Noam Chomsky's encyclopedic knowledge of political, philosophical and economic issues is simply breathtaking, as is his ability to break complex subjects down to their rawest essentials.

New President, New CRA

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business


Mark Winston Griffith

This nation doesn't need a weaker CRA, but a re-conceived and far stronger tool in the effort to ensure ready access to quality, non-discriminatory, financial services in all communities.

Paulson Deal Cheats American Taxpayers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.30.2008 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

We need to bury the philosophy that worships only business, free markets, deregulation and free trade, and replace it with an economic program that rebuilds the middle class.

The Olympics of the Swindles

Major R. Owens | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business


Major R. Owens

The present economic collapse, which will surely devour more than a trillion taxpayer dollars within the next six months, utilized an earlier model -- the Savings and Loans swindle.

Cost Of The Crash: $2.8 Trillion

Guardian | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business


Autumn's market mayhem has left the world's financial institutions nursing losses of $2.8tn, the Bank of England said today, as it called for fundamen...

Deutsche Bank Calls for A Green Economic Recovery Plan

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green


Frances Beinecke

If these trends in the fossil fuel markets continue, prices will drop, but that means companies won't invest in new projects. Inevitability, we will be looking at a brownout future.

Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 11.25.2008 | Business


Danny Schechter

In what was for many an unbelievable chain of events, markets started melting down, confidence shattered and believers in unregulated transactions realized something was very, very wrong.

When It Comes to Slicing the American Pie, McCain Serves Only the Rich

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


Leo W. Gerard

McCain and Palin are running around the country pretending the GOP ticket represents the best interests of the working class and small business owners. It's all false rhetoric and no real action.

Indie Music: A Soundtrack for Troubling Financial Times

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.20.2008 | Entertainment


Georgianne Nienaber

Like southern sweet tea on a hot afternoon, everything about the album Hush is just plain excellent and singer/songwriter Claire Holley's voice is nothing short of achingly beautiful.

Questions in a Time of Crisis

Tony Campolo | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business


Tony Campolo

It is popular these days to blame our economic troubles on the greed of corporate CEO's. Yet we have to face up to the reality that we are ourselves major culprits in this financial fiasco.

Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media


Jeff Biggers

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

The Upside of Economic Apocalypse

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics


Michael B. Laskoff

I wouldn't wish the current economic situation on ourselves. But we're here, and I can find real cause for optimism in an electorate that suddenly understands what we're up against as a country.

Martial Law?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business


Jayne Lyn Stahl

This bailout is nothing more than the biggest bait and switch swindle that has ever been perpetrated on the American taxpayer.

It's the Economy, Stupid!

Hermene Hartman | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Hermene Hartman

At a time of crisis, intelligent rule and leadership are crucial for the masses and the world's economy. I am praying that level heads prevail, to save our country and our economy.