by Dave Johnson | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Another Citigroup alumni has been nominated to a key high-level position in the Obama administration. This time it's a lateral move: Marisa Lago, who has been serving in the Treasury Department as Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Development since...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Education
Since it’s the time of the year when newspapers, websites, and television talk shows scan their archives to pick the person, place, or thing that sums up the year in entertainment, business, sports, or every other venue, why not do that for education, too? In 2014...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
The debate in the Democratic Party is being framed in much of the mainstream media as a struggle between a “pragmatic center” that wants to “get things done” and an angry populist wing – led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown and others – that...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
We're told that Hillary Clinton is spurning something her advisers call the “anti-Wall Street” movement and will run instead on a platform of “working across the aisle” with Republicans. Her camp is suggesting, without much evidence and against the lessons of recent...
by Robert Reich | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Financial Reform
A few years ago, hedge fund Level Global Investors made $54 million selling Dell Computer stock based on insider information from a Dell employee. When charged with illegal insider trading, Global Investors’ co-founder Anthony Chiasson claimed he didn’t know where the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Trade
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is emerging as a champion in the fight over provisions the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement that could undermine our (and other) country's ability to keep the giant multinational corporations under control....
