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America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists

Zach Carter, AlterNet. May 13, 2010.

Wall Street's captains of industry and top policymakers in Washington are often the same people. A lot of them get rich by playing for both teams.

Stop Trying to Kill Social Security

Dean Baker, Comment Is Free. April 29, 2010.

Worried about the deficit? Wall Street is the problem, not Social Security.

How Deregulation Fueled Goldman's Scam

Zach Carter, The Media Consortium. April 20, 2010.

It's good to see Goldman Sachs being held accountable, but better regulations could have prevented the company's subprime scam.

Alan Greenspan and the New York Times Are Gunning for Your Social Security

Zach Carter, AlterNet. March 25, 2010.

The battle for Social Security is on -- and the Times is fighting for the bad guys.

Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You

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.

The Education of Alan Greenspan

Donald Cohen, Huffington Post. October 31, 2008.

Throughout the period of conservative dominance there were always those who understood the fallibility of unregulated markets.

Alan Greenspan: Who Could Have Known?

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. October 28, 2008.

Greenspan thinks that if the geniuses running the Fed couldn't predict the meltdown, nobody could.

Economic Disaster: McCain and Greenspan

Digby, Hullabaloo. September 18, 2008.

We have one special guy to thank for the mess we're in, and McCain thinks he's the solution.

Hillary Wants to Let Greenspan Decide Whether to Rescue Home Owners

Scarecrow, Firedoglake. March 25, 2008.

I wonder what Paul Krugman, who has pointed to Alan Greenspan's role in fostering the current financial crisis, would think of this.

It's Now Official: Bush Has Katrina-ized the US Economy.

Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. March 19, 2008.

Bush tops "Heckuva job Brownie" with clueless comment on financial meltdown: "I want to thank you, Mr. Secretary, for working over the weekend"

Bad Mouthing De-regulation

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.

A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession

Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 3, 2008.

This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.

How Bush's Iraq Oil-Grab Went Awry

Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch.com. September 27, 2007.

Alan Greenspan's remarks in context.

Alan Greenspan: The Fraud

William Greider, TheNation.com. September 20, 2007.

Alan Greenspan attempts to save face in his new book by revising history.

Greenspan Slams Bush's Fiscal Policy, Several Years Too Late

Ian Welsh, September 17, 2007.

Ian Welsh: Alan Greenspan's new book says nasty things about Bush, but that doesn't mean he's redeemed himself.