Wall Street is Still Out of Control: Why Obama Should Call for Glass-Steagall...
Next week President Obama travels to Wall Street where he’ll demand – in light of the Street’s continuing antics since the bailout, as well as its role in watering-down the Volcker rule – that the...
View ArticleThe Monday Line: We Don’t Need Empty Promises, More Attack Adverts or Talking...
We need courageous leaders and we’re far from getting them because the political system is dysfunctional and, perhaps, broken beyond repair. It is so serious that a vast majority of voters have thrown...
View ArticleThe First Amendment Upside Down. Why We Must Occupy Democracy
You’ve been seeing this across the country … Americans assaulted, clubbed, dragged, pepper-sprayed … Why? For exercising their right to free speech and assembly — protesting the increasing...
View ArticleMost Important Economic Speech of Obama’s Presidency
The President’s speech last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of...
View ArticleWhat Do Abused Dogs and Laid-Off Workers Have in Common?
In fairness to Mitt Romney, on the matter of his poor dog riding atop his deluxe car on a long drive, Romney suggests his dog enjoys this. Even assuming this is true, what does it tell us that on the...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas...
Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic drilling; the super PAC behind Rick Santorum just released a new...
View ArticleCameron? Non. Sarkozy? Non. Austerity? Non.
Forget liberté, égalité, fraternité… the cry in France and across the UK this past week was Non, Non, Non as the week long Europe-wide election hangover continues. It was a stunning rebuke of David...
View ArticleDimon in the Rough: How Wall Street Aims to Keep U.S. Regulators Out of Its...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the main regular of derivatives (bets on bets), wants to extend Dodd-Frank regulations to the foreign branches and subsidiaries of Wall Street banks. Horror of...
View ArticleHow Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt: Call for Breaking Up the Biggest Banks, and...
by Robert Reich President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. It’s good policy, and it would smoke...
View ArticleThe Two Centers of Unaccountable Power in America and Their Consequences
by Robert Reich There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today — places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made...
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In a revealing interview, Trump predicts a ‘massive recession’ but intends to...
The New York billionaire dismissed concern that his comments — which are exceedingly unusual, if not unprecedented, for a major party front-runner — could potentially affect financial markets. “I...
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Most Important Economic Speech of Obama’s Presidency
The President’s speech last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of...
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What Do Abused Dogs and Laid-Off Workers Have in Common?
In fairness to Mitt Romney, on the matter of his poor dog riding atop his deluxe car on a long drive, Romney suggests his dog enjoys this. Even assuming this is true, what does it tell... Read More
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Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas...
Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic drilling; the super PAC behind Rick Santorum just released a new...
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Cameron? Non. Sarkozy? Non. Austerity? Non.
Forget liberté, égalité, fraternité… the cry in France and across the UK this past week was Non, Non, Non as the week long Europe-wide election hangover continues. It was a stunning rebuke of David...
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Dimon in the Rough: How Wall Street Aims to Keep U.S. Regulators Out of Its...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the main regular of derivatives (bets on bets), wants to extend Dodd-Frank regulations to the foreign branches and subsidiaries of Wall Street banks. Horror of...
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How Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt: Call for Breaking Up the Biggest Banks, and...
by Robert Reich President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. It’s good policy, and it would smoke...
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The Two Centers of Unaccountable Power in America and Their Consequences
by Robert Reich There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today — places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made...
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