David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. October 29, 2009. The "Financial Stability Improvement Act" would let Geithner spend as much as he wants for as long as he wants, with no specific oversight.
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.
ProPublica July 21, 2009. "TARP has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money."
Michael Moore, Time Magazine. May 2, 2009. Had Madoff just followed the example of his fellow tycoons, he could have legally multiplied his wealth many times over, legally.
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. April 24, 2009. Warrens work is very important, she is doing us all a great service and should be listened to.
Dean Baker, AlterNet. April 21, 2009. The Wall Street crew relied on its political power to ensure that the rules remained rigged, even though their crooked deck wrecked the economy.
Lagan Sebert, David Murdock, American News Project. April 16, 2009. "Toxic assets" are actually mortgages and, by extension, houses and the people who are struggling to live in them.
Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post. April 14, 2009. It ain't easy to play the role of loyal opposition to a progressive president who seems determined at times to be captured by Wall Street.
Mike Whitney, CounterPunch. April 13, 2009. Six months and $1 trillion later, and Congress still can't figure out what Geithner is up to. It's a wonder the Treasury chief hasn't been fired yet.
James Doran, The Observer UK AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009. Elizabeth Warren says infusing money "into a financially troubled entity without demanding changes in management is preposterous."
Megan Slack, Huffington Post. March 31, 2009. Merrill Lynch's bonuses to execs totaled $3.6 billion, one-third of the money they received from the feds' TARP bailout.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. Just about everything is riding on how we navigate this unprecedented moment in history; Obama needs to show he's on the right side.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. February 6, 2009. In a recent interview, Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur told Americans: 'Be squatters in your own homes. Don't you leave.'
Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 5, 2009. The companies' political activities in 2008 "have, in part, yielded them $295.2 billion from the federal government."
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 29, 2008. Even as the media continue to repeat the claim that credit has frozen up, evidence has emerged suggesting the entire story is wrong.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 20, 2008. As if you needed any more proof that the Republican attempt to break the UAW a week ago Thursday was really just a political stunt.
