by Richard Eskow | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog
Mattel makes a little toy called the "Magic 8-Ball." It looks like a pool ball with a little window in it. You shake it and a little answer pops up in the glass. They were a craze in the corporate world a few years back, and you still see lots of them holding down...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 15, 2010 | Blog
Like an cat burglar, Goldman Sachs leaves its fingerprints in the most unusual places. The news of Goldman's role in the Greek financial crisis isn't just a black eye for Wall Street. It's also a diplomatic disaster for the United States, whose government has become...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Let's have a frank talk about an uncomfortable subject: Progressives need to raise campaign money in order to get elected and stay in office. Sometimes that money has to come from places that progressives aren't comfortable talking about. This gritty reality has too...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 11, 2010 | Blog
Never underestimate Sarah Palin. She did a better job articulating anti-banker sentiment at last week's Tea Party Convention than Obama's done. Its followers don't realize it, but the Tea Party movement is really a Trojan Horse filled with bankers and lobbyists. It's...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 9, 2010 | Blog
It should be, as the President once called it, a "no-brainer": Overhaul our broken system for distributing federal student loans. Stop giving banks undeserved profits for administering these loans (an estimated $80 billion over ten years), since they take no risk and...
