by Richard Eskow | Jun 23, 2010 | Blog
This Saturday an organization called AmericaSpeaks is sponsoring a "National Town Meeting" on the budget deficit in twenty cities. Although organizers claim to be non-partisan, a review of their materials shows a strong ideological bias and a thinly disguised goal: to...
by Zach Carter | Jun 23, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
A coalition of conservative New Democrats, whose leader is being investigated by a Congressional ethics committee over Wall Street fundraising, has officially come out in favor of gutting financial reform. The issue they've targeted: derivatives, the most closely...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 23, 2010 | Blog
American deregulated corporatism: Short-term profits for a very few at the expense of the rest of us. The Gulf oil spill is driving home the "expense of the rest of us" part of this equation. And the corporatist/conservative reaction to government's efforts to reign...
by Steven Capozzola | Jun 23, 2010 | Blog
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers have co-authored an op-ed ahead of the G-20 urging an international agenda that focuses on "work to stabilize debt levels, enact new financial regulation, and reduce...dependence...
by Mary Bottari | Jun 23, 2010 | Blog
As the fight for financial reform on Capitol Hill enters its final stages, it is worth reviewing what is being done to protect states and localities from the Wall Street con. On Thursday, the House-Senate conference committee on financial reform will take up the...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 22, 2010 | Blog
Andrew Reinbach is right. Deservedly or not, the political gods continue to smile on the Democrats, gifting them with an opposition so predictable and caricaturized — from punishing the unemployed, to defending Wall Street — as to be right out of central...
