by Eric Lotke | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog
Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history. The punishment seems to fit the crime.... But there is no closure here. We can’t let Madoff’s sentence distract us from the underlying problems....
by Bill Scher | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog
The House passed the first comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill on Friday, but exactly in the way I worried about last week -- not on a wave of grassroots momentum, but last-minute cajoling by
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 28, 2009 | Blog
The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world's wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever. Thirteen years ago, two firms that manage the wealth of the world’s wealthy — New...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
Remember a while ago I wrote about my new novel, 2044? 2044 starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. The 2044 story is about water. Giant...
by Bill Scher | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
It took a very long time to end the fallacy that you can't protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time. But that day has come. The nail in the coffin of the canard was delivered this week, as both the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers formally endorsed...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 26, 2009 | Blog
The debate over health care reform has taken a particularly worrisome turn. Suddenly we're in a place where passing something kind of like reform may be more important than getting to reform itself. In the name of "compromise" and in interest of getting...
