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Chris Hayes from The Nation talked to me for his excellent weekly podcast, The Breakdown. We're talking about foreclosure fraud, mortgage-backed securities fraud, illegal mortgage fees, and all kinds of really nasty things happening on Wall Street. Give it a listen:...

Republican fund-raisers are treating Americans like little children, as if the GOP knows best and must shelter the youngsters from the truth. It’s like when a kindergartner asks his father if mommy is coming home soon, and the widower replies that she’s on a long...

It's been 20 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated, 19 months since the Recovery Act began investing billions in producing clean energy, 16 months since the House passed carbon cap legislation and 10 months since the EPA declared it was obligated, following a...

The Tea Party has long attempted to portray itself as a populist movement -- angry both at Wall Street bailouts and social spending. The notion of government action working to save the private sector from collapse was literally depicted as a giant step towards Nazism,...

I am in Flint, Michigan today, getting ready to drive down to Jackson for this evening's "Keep It Made In America" Town Hall. Flint has been through it and has come out the other end. Now the rest of us are going through what Flint has been going through. Many people...

Heard the one about the Social Security Trust Fund that holds nothing but "IOUs"? That phony claim goes back to at least 1939, when a rabidly anti-Roosevelt journalist named John T. Flynn used a colorful analogy about a tin box in a drawer in order to argue that...

Appeared on the Jaco Report on Fox News in St. Louis. We had a good talk about foreclosure fraud, the "automated greed factories," and the dead soul of modern banking: Richard Eskow Jaco St Louis Fox 10-13-10