Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag Letting the Banking Rats Out of the Bag
The average American is paying for the banking debacle not only in taxes for the bailout but with lost jobs and homes.
Aug 12, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Banking Bandits Get Their Reward Banking Bandits Get Their Reward
By now everybody must know that the top banking executives responsible for our economic meltdown have no shame.
Aug 5, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bucking the Banks Bucking the Banks
How can we expect the experts to reform the financial system when it's experts who got us into this mess to begin with?
Jun 24, 2009 / Editorial / Chris Hayes
Foreclosure Fiasco Foreclosure Fiasco
The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis is a huge bust. Will the president be able to extricate us from this mess?
Jun 24, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Obama’s False Financial Reform Obama’s False Financial Reform
What's missing in the President's call for reform are concrete rules that address a dysfunctional banking system. Slow down the rush to weak solutions.
Jun 19, 2009 / Editorial / William Greider
The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation
Long before most in the business press rose to the challenge, Gretchen Morgenson was reporting that the financial sector had gone rogue.
Jun 17, 2009 / Feature / Dean Starkman
Obama’s Money Men Finally Get It Obama’s Money Men Finally Get It
Unveiling new proposals to regulate Wall Street, Geithner and Summers now condemn the shenanigans they once abetted and celebrated.
Jun 17, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Sheila Bair Is on Your Side Sheila Bair Is on Your Side
The head of the FDIC is looking out for taxpayers--and that's why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.
Jun 10, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Reagan Didn’t Do It Reagan Didn’t Do It
It would be nice to blame the Gipper for the economic meltdown, but the facts don't support it. The real villains are closer at hand.
Jun 3, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Bankers’ Paradise Bankers’ Paradise
Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
May 20, 2009 / Editorial / Chris Hayes