Stories by Pam Martens
Posted on Apr 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet
There are plenty of lessons to be learned from MF Global, all of which we can count on Congress to ignore at the behest of Wall Street money until the next financial crisis.
Posted on Mar 12, 2012, Source: CounterPunch
Is the think tank a citadel of libertarian advocacy or whore for the Republican Party?
Posted on Feb 28, 2012, Source: CounterPunch
Hedge Fund money teams up with Koch and BB&T to buy the minds of America's students and professors.
Posted on Oct 26, 2011, Source: CounterPunch
In a secretive government facility Wall Street firms get to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy on law-abiding citizens.
Posted on Nov 25, 2010, Source: CounterPunch
We must put the wealth back into the hands from which it was taken in a rigged wealth transfer scheme.
Posted on Oct 27, 2010, Source: CounterPunch
A secretive libertarian nonprofit bankrolled a fear-mongering effort to get McCain into the White House. Until now, where the money came from has been a hotly debated mystery.
Posted on Jul 21, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
The National Arbitration Forum isn't impartial -- it's financially shackled to debt collection law firms representing major credit card companies.
Posted on Jun 2, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
There's a cycle going on here: if you don't put money in consumers' hands, you get repetitive cycles of layoffs and growing unemployment.
Posted on Oct 21, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
It's going to take about 20 years to repair the damage from the huge rip off created under the guise of "free market" capitalism.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
Crude oil has risen 700 percent in seven years; the lack of oversight has allowed companies like Phibro to pull in huge and questionable profits.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
A road map to how the banking industry landed itself in the financial loony bin.
Posted on Jan 27, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
Big firms are giving the media a stage-managed version of what went wrong, but we better get to the truth fast, or face greater economic pain.
