Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 18, 2009. Summers and Geitner finally condemned the Wall Street shenanigans they once abetted. But will this mean any real change in Obama's policy?
Les Leopold, Chelsea Green Publishing. June 3, 2009. Wall Street investment houses went after the $100 billion saved in school-district trust funds like Whitefish Bay's, and made a killing.
William Greider, The Nation. April 24, 2009. What we are witnessing is a high-stakes melodrama of glandular politics. Will Obama roll over or fight back?
Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate. March 26, 2009. The real failings in the Obama recovery program lie not in the stimulus package, but in its efforts to revive financial markets.
Mary Liz Thomson, AlterNet. January 20, 2009. One of the original financial felons from the 1980s, Michael Milken, is asking for a pardon from President Bush.
Robert Kuttner, AlterNet. September 19, 2008. Help must go to the ordinary people who have suffered harm, not just wealthy insiders. That should be the price of a deal.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. August 15, 2008. Americans know all the sleazy details of the Edwards affair. But they remain in the dark about a scandal that affects the livelihoods of millions.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. August 22, 2007. How "reputable" financial firms are using an arsenal of tricks to extract high payments from homeowners, drain their equity and steal their homes.
