Stories by Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins is a senior fellow at the public policy center Demos and author of Other People's Money and Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking your Pocket (Whether you voted for them or not).
McCain may be resorting to obvious pandering with his VP pick -- but political pandering wins elections.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008
Oil prices won't be dropping any time soon. Not until the first mandatory and detailed trade reports cover the entire global futures trading markets.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008
Exxon is working to assure that whoever gets into the Oval Office doesn't try to tax some of their profits away.
Posted on May 6, 2008
We can't solve our economic pain with another handout -- we need to regulate excessive exorbitant rates and nontransparent lending practices.
Posted on Feb 2, 2008
There's a national economy, and then there's a "people's economy." Guess which one will see more "relief."
Posted on Jan 24, 2008
The U.S. has the most prisoners and the highest jailing rate of any country -- the insanity must stop.
Posted on Dec 30, 2007
The debate over whether the blame for the crisis should rest with lenders or borrowers misses a crucial point: if lenders couldn't offset their loans to Wall Street, their practices couldn't have spiraled out of control.
Posted on Dec 9, 2007
The new book
Stolen Without a Gun is a confession from inside history's biggest accounting fraud -- the collapse of MCI WorldCom.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
The government can do more to make borrowing for college tuition a benefit, not a burden.
Posted on Jun 21, 2007
A conversation with author David Rose about a murder trial gone wrong and what it tells us about the racial and economic bias in America's criminal justice system today.
Posted on Jun 2, 2007
Rummy gets the boot and Paris Hilton gets richer.
Posted on Nov 17, 2006
When gas prices were high, the Bush administration blamed the Iraq war. But now that they’re sinking, it’s clear that theory doesn’t hold up.
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
If you ever wanted to see how badly 'conservatives' have been shaking the silver out of our pockets in the past six years, this list is it.
Posted on Sep 22, 2006
Health care in the US has gotten so bad that even the wealthy find themselves gasping at the soaring premiums.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
New laws must prevent abuse by companies that are squirming out of paying Katrina victims.
Posted on Aug 31, 2006
Bush's Treasury Secretary nominee, Henry J. Paulson, is the President's last hurrah -- and his last chance.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
It's time to get some of those billions back from the oil companies -- let's establish a windfall profits tax and put an end to sweeheart tax breaks.
Posted on May 26, 2006
