Bailout Increasingly Unpopular in Congress Bailout Increasingly Unpopular in Congress
The Bush Administration continues to aggressively push its Wall Street bailout plan on Congress, where it's reaching a surprising amount of resistance. Congressional Leaders in the...
Sep 24, 2008 / Ari Berman
GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform GOPers Abandon Free Market, Each Other and Party Platform
RRepublican were divided over how to respond to an economic crisis of their own making. John McCain's economic guru, Phil Gramm, successfully deregulated the financial-services in...
Sep 24, 2008 / John Nichols
Another Alternative Another Alternative
Debt forgiveness. Intriguing. There is a better answer: Some form of debt forgiveness. If the face value of half of the debt was forgiven in exchange for some new government aut...
Sep 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Yes, Virginia There is a Crisis Yes, Virginia There is a Crisis
Yesterday, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter David Cay Johnson posted a letter urging us in the media to be adequately skeptical of the very premise driving the push for the bailout...
Sep 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Paulson’s Plan: Financial Fascism Paulson’s Plan: Financial Fascism
Henry Paulson isn't proposing the nationalization of private corporations--he wants a corporate takeover of government.
Sep 24, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bail Out People Before Bankers Bail Out People Before Bankers
Economists are widely panning Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's bailout package for lacking appropriate regulatory mechanisms to prevent another future crisis; for not providing h...
Sep 23, 2008 / Peter Rothberg
Questions Unanswered Questions Unanswered
Bracket for a moment the massive and monumental questions of justice, equality, responsibility and moral hazard involved in this bailout. There are still huge outstanding question...
Sep 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Why $700 Billion? Why $700 Billion?
When I asked a Democratic house staffer recently where the $700 billion figure for the bailout came she mimed plucking it out of thin air. After today's hearing, that question is ...
Sep 23, 2008 / Chris Hayes
Darkness Becomes Him Darkness Becomes Him
A French pundit's short journey from Maoism to the cult of moi.
Sep 23, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Scott McLemee
John McCain: The Fundamental Deregulator John McCain: The Fundamental Deregulator
John McCain may have recently discovered his inner populist, but he has been pushing for deregulation all year.
Sep 23, 2008 / Huffington Post