by Robert Borosage | Dec 14, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform, Too Big To Jail
Senator Jeff Merkley, one of the handful of independent stalwarts on bank reform, today blasted the Attorney General for the Justice Department's apparent policy of giving big bankers a "get out of jail free" card. As he notes British bank HSBC admitted to serial...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
The following was originally published in The Nation. With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
In the words of the old spiritual, "My Lord, what a morning!" Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was defined by an iconic poster bearing the single word: "Change." Obama's victory in 2008 signified how much America had already changed enough to make his historic campaign...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 11, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
Robert Reich has some excellent advice for Vice President Joe Biden, regarding his debate we VP wannabe Rep. Paul Ryan: Don't debate the earnest, affable Paul Ryan who's likely to show up tonight. Debate the right-wing Randian behind those blue eyes. Tell Americans...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
In his most recent column, Paul Krugman makes a convincing case that the "real referendum" in this election isn't about President Obama's (real or imagined) economic policies, but about the "the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society, on...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
Here's a new Zen riddle: What is the sound of money not talking? Sure, it talks sometimes. We heard it loud and clear at the Republican Convention. But sometimes the sound of money in politics is the sound of silence. It's the sound of crooked bankers being let off...
