Mark Felsenthal and Alister Bull, Reuters July 21, 2009. Bernanke said supportive policies would be needed for some time to prevent rising unemployment from undercutting recovery.
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.
Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 7, 2009. Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.
Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair. December 11, 2008. We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here.
Ian Welsh, Huffington Post. December 6, 2008. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is groping his way in the dark; here are some requirements for a successful program.
Dean Baker, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 3, 2008. It is remarkable how little attention is being given to Paulson and Bernanke's ambitious effort to spread the wealth.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 17, 2008. We have no idea who got this money or the conditions or collateral put up in return for the loans.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 11, 2008. The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans.
Daniel DiRito, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. February 21, 2008. Economic forecasting isn't an exacting science...yet the American public often knows we're in a recession well before the experts.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. January 29, 2008. If a government that protects ordinary people is a "nanny state," then one protecting the super-rich deserves the title of "super nanny state."
Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. January 18, 2008. It helps greatly that the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke, appears to be an intelligent, non-ideological adult
