Corporate Responsibility & Accountability

2009

Why Not Tax Wall Street?

William Greider : Ethical Economics

In Washington, big ideas for financial reform are suddenly gaining momentum.
The World and Pittsburgh

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.
Money for Nothing

Jeff Madrick : Ethical Economics

Big profits on Wall Street, and the big bonuses they fund, are not justified by the marketplace.
CEOs Attempt to 'Rebrand' Bonuses

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.

Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen

Naomi Klein : Environment

Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
Travails of the Super-Rich

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.
Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats

Matthew Blake : Corporate Consolidation

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
Blackstone's Bell

Doug Henwood

Is the private equity boom about to go bust?
Hedging Bets

Jordan Stancil : Ethical Economics

Why would anyone trust a hedge fund?
Will Congress Reform Wretched Executive Excess?

Morton Mintz : Ethical Economics

Outrage over excessive rewards for incompetent executives could spark the Democratic Congress to action.

Draining the Gene Pool

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.
Coffee, Tea or Another Airline Merger?

Nicholas von Hoffman

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.
Reform Comes to the Boardroom

Kelly Candaele

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.
Buffet's Billions

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 Rules Still Apply

: 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.
Watching What You Say

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?