Kevin Connor, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. Barney Frank takes pride in being the Left's darling, but he's almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.
Denver Nicks, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. Profits and bonuses are back on the Street, but the prosperity hasn't filtered down past the service economy.
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.
Kevin Connor, Eyes on the Ties AlterNet: Politics. December 11, 2009. Rep. Melissa Bean is a great friend to Wall Street. Were her efforts to kill financial reform backed by Obama's inner circle?
William Greider, The Nation. December 8, 2009. A permanent security blanket for big boys of finance will further inflame public opinion. Only the public isn't likely to know.
Dean Baker, Comment Is Free AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 30, 2009. The millions of American families struggling to keep up with their bubble-era mortgages are the ones who deserve help.
Naomi Klein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009. On the anniversary of the Seattle protests, anger mounts at collusion between corporations and governments. Perhaps our movement's time has come.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 12, 2009. The latest job numbers mock the smiley-faced claims of economists and polticos that the Great Recession is over.
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.
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."
Les Leopold, AlterNet. October 22, 2009. We force very low income single moms to jump through hoops to get their welfare checks, but we let Wall Street's welfare kings walk all over us.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 20, 2009. Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. October 12, 2009. Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. October 2, 2009. The bankers who brought us the disaster of 2008 have created a new financial instrument called "life settlements" -- call it morbid capitalism.
Les Leopold, Huffington Post. September 30, 2009. The manufacturing sector accounts for fewer and fewer jobs each year, so why should we give a damn about it?
Arun Gupta, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009. Sorry, it's not over yet. This downturn will be severe and long-lasting, and profoundly re-shape our lives, culture, society and the world.
Nomi Prins, Wiley Press. September 29, 2009. To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, September 25, 2009. Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 25, 2009. Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009. The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
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."
Nomi Prins, Mother Jones. September 16, 2009. Obama claims that govt. funding of the banking system saved the economy, but without reform he is playing an expensive and dangerous game.
Zaid Jilani, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. Boortz used his Twitter account this morning to compare the President's visit to Wall Street to "sending a child molester to speak to a kindergarten class."
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. September 14, 2009. The Federal Reserve so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for economists.
