by Richard Eskow | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog
It can be hard to grasp all the details of Section 716, the Senate provision that would force big banks to spin off their swap desks, but the principle isn't that complicated: Banks that get access to discounted money from the Federal Reserve, or federally-guaranteed...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2010 | Blog
Feel free to read Dana Milbank if that sort of thing appeals to you, but don't imagine for a minute that you're learning anything. That would be like studying the French Revolution by reading Marie Antoinette's cake recipes. The Milbank school of journalism - which at...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 8, 2010 | Blog
Life can only be understood backward, said Kierkegaard, but it has to be lived forward. That's the only explanation I can offer for the strange turn of events that led to me becoming an AIG executive, then a progressive writer/blogger, and to my plans to speak...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
We're here at AFN - the America's Future Now conference - liveblogging a session called "Curbing Wall Street: Strategies Going Forward." It's a subject close to our heart. The panelists are Heather McGhee from Demos, Heather Booth from Americans for Financial Reform,...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
I was getting ready to attend next week's America's Future Now conference, whose theme is that progressives must lead, and thinking about the relationship problems progressives are having with Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership. All the relationship books...
