Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 17, 2009. Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?
Joshua Holland, Nomi Prins, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. October 29, 2009. The "Financial Stability Improvement Act" would let Geithner spend as much as he wants for as long as he wants, with no specific oversight.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 16, 2009. The top 1 percent owns more wealth then the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 16, 2009. The 13 Dems on the Senate Finance Committee get one faintly rational GOPer to join them in a meaningless stab at health care reform, and it throws them into a tizzy.
Ian Welsh, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 13, 2009. All the Obama administration has done is put the economy on life support then wander away.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. October 12, 2009. Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.
Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. October 6, 2009. A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.
Nomi Prins, Christopher Hayes, The Nation. September 26, 2009. The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. September 1, 2009. The Fed's decision to brag publicly about a few loans that are actually performing stinks of intellectual desperation.
Christian Parenti, The Brooklyn Rail. July 18, 2009. Henwood, who publishes The Left Business Observer, discusses the global economic crisis with Christian Parenti.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 17, 2009. Matt Taibbi argues that "Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."
Laura Flanders, GRITtv AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. July 16, 2009. Matt Taibbi and Mike Lux discuss whether Goldman Sachs is a risk taker or a coup maker.
ZP Heller, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. July 14, 2009. Why won’t Wells Fargo use its bailout billions to keep the Quad City Die Casting company afloat?
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. July 7, 2009. Several events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. Bottom line: the medicine isn't working.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 27, 2009. Americans are now $14 trillion poorer. Many who thought they were middle class have now joined the ranks of the poor.