by Richard Eskow | Aug 14, 2013 | Blog
On Monday WBAI radio’s “Building Bridges” program in New York City.examined Detroit’s financial issues. Hosts Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg interviewed Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and me. The program title, Detroit: Pensions,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 12, 2013 | Blog
Four years after Wall Street's malfeasance dealt a telling blow the economy, and long after tens of billions of dollars have been paid out for banker fraud, reports say that we're about to see the first arrests of Wall Street bank employees. What's more, the suspects...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
Fast food workers have been conducting one-day strikes for better wages and working conditions in several American cities. They’ve also been doing much more than that: They’re shown the entire country real leadership. They’re fighting for all of us, and their fight is...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
President Obama’s Justice Department, under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder, hasn’t indicted a single bank executive for the massive Wall Street crime wave that devastated the economy. The regulatory reform that followed the 2008 crisis wasn’t nearly...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog
Now this is interesting. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, bought the Washington Post for $250 million after the newspaper went up for sale in what was described as a "highly secret" process. (That's right. An organization dedicated to discovering and reporting...
