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 Terrance Heath | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
Last week, I wrote this: The fundamental differences between the left and the right — between conservatives and progressives — comes down to how we answer three simple questions: "Can we?," "Should we?" and "What do we mean, 'We'?"...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog
As you encounter congressional candidates who are out vote-hunting this week, as them a simple question: Will you pledge to oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits, including increasing the retirement age, and any effort to privatize Social Security? It's a simple...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman compares Obama's call for taxing private equity income as income, just like everyone else, a "war, like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/steven-schwarzman-obama-a_n_683178.html Currently...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
It sounds like the plot to a dozen movies: Picture a corporation so powerful that its tentacles circle the globe and reach into the highest corridors of power. Yet a single sentence on an ex-employee's obscure website forces it to move into action. That sentence is so...
by Trevor Davis | Aug 13, 2010 | Blog
