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.
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."
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 ... "
Nomi Prins, AlterNet. September 17, 2008. The speculative nature of the financial industry is a threat to national economic security. It requires a serious exit strategy.
Ralph Nader, Nader.org. January 19, 2008. The assault on regulation over the past quarter century caused a mortgage collapse that is producing hundreds of thousands of foreclosures.
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe. September 24, 2007. For more than two decades, the Federal Reserve has been prime enabler of a dangerously speculative economy.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. September 12, 2007. The growth of the housing bubble made this sort of collapse inevitable, just as the crash of the stock bubble was inevitable.
