by Dave Johnson | Apr 14, 2010 | Blog
A few weeks back I wrote about Whirlpool closing their Evansville, Indiana plant and moving the work to Mexico. I wrote about the lunacy of an economic system that encourages companies to destroy lives, communities and the very economy that the Whirlpools depend on....
by Robert Borosage | Apr 14, 2010 | Blog
Were the big banks all knowingly running Ponzi schemes? That's the question that arises from the stunning hearings held this week by the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, on the collapse of Washington Mutual, the largest...
by Eric Lotke | Apr 14, 2010 | Blog
In the wake of the 2010 Census, Maryland passed a law yesterday that fixes a major problem. Maryland will now count people in prison where they actually live, not where they are confined. This first-in-the-nation law will improve the fairness and accuracy of Census...
by Zach Carter | Apr 14, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
There are two types of financial outrages: acts that are outrageously illegal, and acts that are, outrageously, legal. Yesterday's Senate hearing on the rise and fall of Washington Mutual was a rare examination of the former outrage, documenting the pervasive practice...
by Zach Carter | Apr 13, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
4:25 Levin is ripping Killinger on option-ARM delinquencies. WaMu performed a study concluding that option-ARMs were about to default like crazy, and right after that study, WaMu started pushing option-ARM securities hard to investors. The company sold a $3 billion...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 13, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Where I previously wrote that some things were getting worse more slowly, the trade deficit is just getting worse again. The US Trade Deficit Widened in February by 7.4 percent over the previous month, to $39.7 billion. "Imports surged 1.7 percent for the month....
