Danielle Ivory, Lagan Sebert, American News Project. November 24, 2008. With newfound bailout money in their wallets, big banks have been rushing to gobble up smaller ones.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 17, 2008. We have no idea who got this money or the conditions or collateral put up in return for the loans.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 13, 2008. It appears that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is just making things up as he goes along.
Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. October 22, 2008. With $700 billion in taxpayers' money at stake, surely it would be wise to have an independent board that can hold Paulson accountable.
Nomi Prins, The Nation. October 15, 2008. Paulson and his wheeler-dealer pals have proven more interested in preserving their own wealth than in stabilizing the American economy.
David Sirota, AlterNet. October 10, 2008. Is Paulson looking to socialize risk and privatize gain? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.
David Sirota, AlterNet. October 4, 2008. We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy.
Roberto Lovato, New America Media. September 29, 2008. The government may be preparing for another conflict -- a domestic war on the poor and middle class.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 28, 2008. It would keep families in their homes and loosen credit markets without rewarding Wall Street's wheeler-dealers for their recklessness.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. September 26, 2008. Missing in our media coverage is a sense of what's really behind this mess -- a debt we cannot manage or wish away.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 25, 2008. Smell a rat if Congress approves the Paulson plan without major modifications that might help Main Street as well as Wall Street.
Arthur MacEwan, Dollars and Sense. September 25, 2008. Greed is a human constant, which begs the question of what it is that changed in the lead-up to this financial crisis.
Chuck Collins, Dedrick Muhammad, AlterNet. September 25, 2008. Who says we need to borrow a trillion dollars to save Wall Street from its own excesses?
Phil Mattera, AlterNet. September 24, 2008. The "Paulson Plan" would outsource the handling of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets to those who got us into this mess.
Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. September 23, 2008. The candidate is proposing a radical restriction on pay for CEOs of bailed-out firms. But is he serious or is this just election season populism?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 22, 2008. Bush wants to fleece us for hundreds of billions in the financial crisis, but that's just the first layer of a more fundamental economic problem.
