On AlterNet: financial crisis
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "financial crisis"
Zach Carter, Media Consortium. December 16, 2009.
The latest efforts to reform Wall Street don't away with too-big-to-fail banks, and that's a big problem -- here's what progressives are saying about it.
Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet. December 5, 2009.
America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 2, 2009.
We need more protection from corporate greed than the current mainstream antidotes provide. Americans get this. Too bad moderate reformers don't.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. November 26, 2009.
A second dose of deficit-financed stimulus spending would create a lot of jobs that America needs.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 17, 2009.
Wall Street's raking in massive profits and paying its execs and traders record bonuses, thanks in part to government cash. What about ordinary Americans?
Alejandro Reuss, Dollars and Sense. November 10, 2009.
Whether the gears of a capitalist economy mesh or not depends on the institutional framework in which capitalist companies operate.
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.
Ellen Hodgson Brown, TruthOut.org. November 4, 2009.
With its populist business model, the Bank of North Dakota provides a template for sustainable fiscal policy at the state level.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. November 2, 2009.
All the projections show that the unemployment rate is likely to continue to rising for the immediate future and remain high for years to come.
Joshua Holland, Nomi Prins, AlterNet. October 30, 2009.
An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."
Ian Welsh, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 13, 2009.
All the Obama administration has done is put the economy on life support then wander away.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 13, 2009.
As the activities of many are beginning to illustrate, conquering economic inequality means banding together.
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.
Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. October 6, 2009.
A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2009.
Supposedly a tool for measuring financial autonomy, the Index of Economic Freedom does little more than usher in the same policies that caused our financial crisis.
Rob Johnson, NewDeal 2.0. August 31, 2009.
By refusing to stand up to the finance oligarchs, the Obama Admistration fed the cynics and dissipated the opportunity for real change.
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. August 21, 2009.
The New York Times has apparently failed to learn the most basic lessons from the global financial disaster.
Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review. August 8, 2009.
If biz journalists won't step back and take in the sweep of this crisis, and the systemic distortions that underlie it, somebody else will.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. July 29, 2009.
We need both women and men, and folks from a range of ethnic and class backgrounds, informing the creation of business "not as usual."
Jim Christie, Reuters July 21, 2009.
Schwarzenegger and top lawmakers agreed on Monday to close a $26.3 billion deficit.
Agence France Presse July 20, 2009.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday resumed thorny negotiations with lawmakers.
Kat Aaron, Nick Schwellenbach, The Center for Public Integrity. July 18, 2009.
Institutions most likely to screw over the American public don't have to report suspicious activity to the feds.
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?"
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 10, 2009.
Workers laid off early in the downturn are soon to be left without the basic sustenance of an unemployment check.
