Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 18, 2009. Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. If the economic crisis taught us anything, it's that bringing to heel the whiz kids of finance is a top priority.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 20, 2009. Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009. Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.
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.
Tiffiniy Cheng, AlterNet. September 22, 2009. We can end up fumbling at an economic recovery. It's not easy to fight for financial reform, and the banks will push for policies in their favor from every angle.
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?
Thomas Greco, Jr., AlterNet. July 14, 2009. Historically, every financial and economic crisis has been used to further centralize power and concentrate wealth. This one is no different.
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.
William Greider, The Nation. June 25, 2009. Missing in the Obama plan are hard rules -- the classic quality of laws that command behavior by prescribing "thou shalt" or 'thou shalt not."
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. We're dealing with a political elite that is more Clintonesque than Rooseveltesque. Will meaningful change be possible?
Tiffiniy Cheng, AlterNet. June 5, 2009. Come attend events across the country next week to learn more about how we can stop Wall Street before it bankrupts all of us.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 12, 2009. Wall Street and political insiders are ready to break out the champagne. Forgive me if I keep the bubbly on the shelf.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 12, 2009. What's amazing is that the media and the administration even called these "stress tests" tests at all.
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. May 11, 2009. It's been suggested that Obama is focusing on Republican self-destruction and that he'll get around to reforming Wall Street next year.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 9, 2009. "The Fed used a different measurement of bank-capital levels than analysts and investors had been expecting ... "
Alison Jobling, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2009. Now all we need is for the rest of the greedy CEO pigs guzzling at the public trough to see the light and do the same.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. April 28, 2009. After all the help that's been given to them, financial institutions are still not doing much with the money.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. April 24, 2009. Warrens work is very important, she is doing us all a great service and should be listened to.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation. April 23, 2009. As we mark the first 100 days of his presidency, it is staggering to consider the enormous challenges President Obama inherited from his predecessor.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. April 21, 2009. The Wall Street crew relied on its political power to ensure that the rules remained rigged, even though their crooked deck wrecked the economy.
Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009. The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.