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...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 22, 2010 | Blog
Over the weekend China announced a change in its currency policy. But is it for real? Or is it designed to head off Congressional action? So far China has pulled away the football. Their Central Bank was buying up dollars as usual to keep the currency from rising....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog
By Tuesday, it will have been five days since Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, got rapped on the knuckles by the House Republican leadership for the sin of repeating a Republican talking point at an inopportune time. That talking point, you'll recall, is that BP is the...
by Bill Scher | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog, The Sequester
In today's W. Post column from Robert Samuelson, at one point he writes, "This is intellectually shallow." If he was referring to his own work, he'd be right. But he was trying to attack the President as dishonest about his energy policy, claiming that Obama is...