Why Not Tax Wall Street?
William Greider : Ethical Economics
In Washington, big ideas for financial reform are suddenly gaining momentum.
William Greider : Ethical Economics
In Washington, big ideas for financial reform are suddenly gaining momentum.
John Nichols : Ethical Economics
At the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, activists will push the United States to back proposals to regulate CEO compensation and require corporate responsibility.
Jeff Madrick : Ethical Economics
Big profits on Wall Street, and the big bonuses they fund, are not justified by the marketplace.
Countdown
They just don't get it. The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses the refusal of Wall Street CEOs to let their unearned bonuses go.
Jim Hightower & Susan DeMarco : Economic Policy
People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture.
Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Wages & Hours
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Matthew Blake : Corporate Consolidation
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
Morton Mintz : Ethical Economics
Outrage over excessive rewards for incompetent executives could spark the Democratic Congress to action.
Lisa M. Hamilton : Agriculture
A plant gene that could protect organic crops from contamination from genetically engineered seeds is out of reach to most organic farmers, thanks to an agribusiness patent.
As US Air seeks to create a mega-airline by gobbling up Delta, the evidence mounts that a free market in the sky just doesn't work.
Corporate America needs the discipline of democracy to help rid it of some very bad habits. And shareholder activists are pushing the SEC to shore up their rights.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Health Care Policy
What Warren Buffett's gift of billions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation lacks in imagination, it makes up for in safety. If only they had the guts to tackle the real problems.
: Enron
True reform in the wake of the Enron scandal means tightening the standards of corporate law so that executives who abuse their power are held accountable for their crimes.
Tim Shorrock : National Security Administration (NSA)
How are AT&T, Sprint, MCI and other telecommunications giants cooperating with the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program?
