Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 16, 2009. The Fed chairman is Wall Street's Government Official of the Year! OK, OK -- one of many.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. December 11, 2009. Despite the recession, more federal employees than ever are making six-figure salaries paid for by cash-strapped taxpayers.
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 4, 2009. Employers are cutting jobs at a much slower rate.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 2, 2009. More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. If the partisan tables were turned, the GOP would waste no time laying the blame on Democrats. We need to do the same to build political capital for key fights ahead.
Bob Herbert, The New York Times. November 16, 2009. The young, the black and the poor are among those who are being hammered unmercifully in this long and cruel economic downturn that the financial elites are telling us is over.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. October 16, 2009. The top 1 percent owns more wealth then the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
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.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation AlterNet: Politics. October 6, 2009. According to a new Pew study, little attention has been paid to the way America's financial crisis has affected its citizens.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, September 18, 2009. Just the other day, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said "it is very likely that the recession has ended."
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.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 18, 2009. In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.
Gerald Friedman, Dollars and Sense. July 29, 2009. Bernanke has conducted an economic policy as cruel as it has been ineffective. But the blame here lies squarely on the economics profession.
Dean Baker, The Guardian. July 16, 2009. Politicians and pundits in Washington are either too ignorant, dishonest, or scared to talk about the expenditures that this economy needs.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 8, 2009. To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. We're dealing with a political elite that is more Clintonesque than Rooseveltesque. Will meaningful change be possible?