Matt Taibbi, True/Slant AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. August 21, 2009. Robert Benmosche is trying to boost morale of employees who seem anxious they might never again make obscene, undeserved bonuses.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 17, 2009. Matt Taibbi argues that "Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2009. Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.
Michael Moore, Time Magazine. May 2, 2009. Had Madoff just followed the example of his fellow tycoons, he could have legally multiplied his wealth many times over, legally.
Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. April 4, 2009. The "too big" claim forms the rationale for the diversion of regular people's money into rich people's pockets.
Megan Slack, Huffington Post. March 31, 2009. Merrill Lynch's bonuses to execs totaled $3.6 billion, one-third of the money they received from the feds' TARP bailout.
Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. March 26, 2009. AIG exec Jake DeSantis' NY Times letter asking for us to chill out about his poor overworked employees is a sick joke.
Lucy Komisar, AlterNet. March 26, 2009. Congress has deftly avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will make a few million in bonuses seem like peanuts.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. March 25, 2009. There's a chance that the fury over those AIG bonuses and bungled bailouts may be channeled into real economic, labor rights and health-care reform.
Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 24, 2009. "... underneath all of this is a conversation about the linkages and the connections of a small group of Wall Street types that are making decisions."
Marcus Baram, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2009. In a conference call with reporters, Cuomo also added that 9 of the top 10 recipients had given back the bonuses.
Nick Sabloff, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. March 19, 2009. Geithner confirmed that his department had pushed Dodd to add a loophole in the federal stimulus bill allowing bailout recipients to receive bonuses.
Melina Ripcoco, Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. March 19, 2009. America is known for its great second acts, and we may be witnessing the curtain rising on Spitzer's.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 19, 2009. The Republican alternative -- a non-binding measure asking the Treasury Department to think of something -- was rejected. Imagine that.
Staff, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 19, 2009. Why do we keep giving out the Nobel Prize for Evil? It just gives companies like AIG an incentive to be evil.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 19, 2009. Elijah Cummings knew about $1 billion in bonuses for "months" ... why didn't Timothy Geithner?
