by Richard Eskow | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
Once again we're hearing that a foreclosure fraud deal is about to be announced between major banks, the US government, and most or all of the states. We've heard that before, only to have the deadline pushed back so that holdout Attorneys General can be brought on...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
Bankers who committed bank fraud deserve to be prosecuted and sent to jail. Enforcement of the law is vital to deter such behavior in the future. Some of America's best state attorneys general are trying do just that —trying to get justice for Americans hurt by what...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
If the President thought his mortgage investigation announcement would be an easy sell to progressive critics, he was only half right at best. The announcement—especially the appointment of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman— did win praise from a number of...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
Above is a video of a conversation I had the other night with Thom Hartmann on his television show, The Big Picture, about the latest - and one of the most shocking - revelations about the government-sponsored housing finance agency Freddie Mac: That it created...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 21, 2012 | Blog
First, Republicans opposed extending the payroll tax cut that put an extra $20 a week in the pockets of 160 million working Americans. Next, they supported it. If the cost were offset the way they wanted. Even though Republicans previously had said that tax cuts never...
