The Stimulus Is Working. Debate Over. More Please.
Bill Scher By Bill Scher Executive editor of LiberalOasis.com The Recovery Act, often known as the stimulus, was the first major act of active government in at least decade. After the unmitigated...
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Dean Baker By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Two years ago, the top honchos at the Fed, Treasury and the Wall Street banks were running around like Chicken Little...
View ArticleWall Street Whiners Threaten to Wreck the Economy – Again
Zach Carter Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet; Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future I agree with everything Paul Krugman has to say about Max Abelson’s excellent run-down of the Wall Street...
View ArticleTroubled Borrowers?
Zach Carter Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet I’ll have plenty to say about the escalating foreclosure fraud scandal later this week. For now: This is a big, big deal. It isn’t a clerical error,...
View ArticleAll They Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage
Michael Winship By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS I attended a screening this week of Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Client 9. It’s the story of the rise and fall of New...
View ArticleKuttner: Desperately Seeking Dirt on Warren
By Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American ProspectElizabeth Warren’s surprise lead in Massachusetts polls only days after she got into the Senate race to oust Republican Scott Brown...
View ArticleRescuing America from Wall Street
By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect Better late than never, the movement to take America back from Wall Street has arrived. On Wednesday, the ranks of the Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleYears of Discontent Trigger American Autumn
To convey the significance of the Occupy Wall Street movement, NBC News anchor Brian Williams this week quoted the 1960s Buffalo Springfield song, For What It’s Worth: “There is something happening...
View ArticleDemote, Defang DeMarco
This guy, Edward DeMarco, is deliberately damaging America – promoting foreclosures, high unemployment and excessive taxes. This guy, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has...
View ArticleBank on Being Bilked
It’s hard to believe considering what happened in 2008 on Wall Street and in Washington, but banking is built on trust. A worker hands his hard-earned dollars to a teller and trusts the money will be...
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