On AlterNet: federal reserve
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "federal reserve"
William Greider, The Nation. October 12, 2009.
Asking deeper questions about the true sources of the calamity is a first step toward developing authentic answers to the nation's predicament.
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.
Nomi Prins, Mother Jones. September 16, 2009.
Obama claims that govt. funding of the banking system saved the economy, but without reform he is playing an expensive and dangerous game.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. September 14, 2009.
The Federal Reserve so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for economists.
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. August 27, 2009.
Ben Bernanke doesn't serve the public. He doesn't even see its existence.
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.
William Greider, The Nation. July 17, 2009.
Pelosi: "We wake up one morning and AIG was receiving $80 billion from the Fed. So of course we're saying, 'Where is this money coming from?"
Harry Hanbury, Lagan Sebert, Mike Fritz, American News Project AlterNet: Video. July 10, 2009.
A rare bipartisan movement to audit the Federal Reserve.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. July 10, 2009.
The largest banking chains are going out of their way to stiff us.
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.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 20, 2009.
Families in the top 1 percent are grabbing a rising share of the nation’s income -- why does the data show no jump in their share of the wealth?
Nomi Prins, The Nation. December 20, 2008.
Some major steps toward transparency are needed to begin to ensure that the bailout money is not being squandered.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2008.
The Federal Reserve says taxpayers are protected, but no one knows who will pay for another Wall Street bailout.
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.
Barry Lando, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 23, 2008.
The prestige of an American President, his ability to reassure jittery investors around the world, has never been lower.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. October 26, 2007.
If our government really is a corporation and Bush is its CEO, we're all likely to be self-employed contractors out of a job.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007.
Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.
William Greider, TheNation.com. September 20, 2007.
Alan Greenspan attempts to save face in his new book by revising history.
