by Zach Carter | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lot of CNBC anchors do not seem to understand how regulation works. In fact, it seems like the network's anchors don't really get how competition works. If you've tuned into the business channel this summer, chances are you've heard its anchors pushing the...
by Zach Carter | Aug 20, 2010 | Blog
Do today's economic conservatives actually want to live in a functional society, or are they striving for an economy that runs on Monopoly Money? NPR's Planet Money recently did a fun segment on the classic board game and its relationship to actual economics,...
by Zach Carter | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
Finally, some good news on Wall Street accountability. A federal judge is holding up the SEC's effort to let Citigroup's top executives off the hook for misleading their own shareholders about $40 billion in subprime debt. If Citi executives did what the SEC says they...
by Zach Carter | Aug 12, 2010 | Blog
A landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's outrageous overdraft scam has the potential to return hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen funds to consumers all over the country. But like many of the banking scandals from the past decade, there's more to the story than...
by Zach Carter | Aug 11, 2010 | Blog
Robert Rubin and Joseph Stiglitz are going public on jobs and the deficit, in what looks very much like a re-run of a major policy debate during the Clinton era. The dispute is simple—should the government focus on putting people back to work, or should it try to cut...
