The Sanders Standard for Serious Bank Reform The Sanders Standard for Serious Bank Reform
The independent senator from Vermont backs four amendments to make a tepid bill muscular enough to change the way Wall Street does business.
Apr 20, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
McConnell: “Courting Wall Street Bankers for Political Money” McConnell: “Courting Wall Street Bankers for Political Money”
There is much to criticize about Dodd's bill. But pay-to-play Senator Mitch McConnell is just reading Wall Street talking points.
Apr 19, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Regulators Who Ignored WaMu’s Predatory Lending Regulators Who Ignored WaMu’s Predatory Lending
Exhibit A in why an independent consumer watchdog is needed, both for consumers and the global economy.
Apr 16, 2010 / The Notion / Kai Wright
They Should Pay Their Fair Share. They Should Pay Their Fair Share.
Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Ed Show attacking the disparate income equality resulting from unfair tax cuts.
Apr 13, 2010 / Video / The Ed Show
Breaking the Banks Breaking the Banks
If banks aren't fighting the financial regulatory bill tooth and nail, then you know the reform isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Apr 10, 2010 / Editorial / Chris Hayes
Student Loan Reform Clears Senate Student Loan Reform Clears Senate
Free public higher education it is not. But for millions of students at the margins, it's real help.
Mar 25, 2010 / The Notion / Richard Kim
Credit Where Due, Geithner Credit Where Due, Geithner
What Tim Geithner should be getting credit for, it seems to me, is that Lehman Brothers report -- well, not the report, but the cover-up.
Mar 16, 2010 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Banking for the People Banking for the People
Across the country, the notion of state-owned banks is catching on.
Mar 11, 2010 / Editorial / John Nichols
Iceland Busts the Banksters Iceland Busts the Banksters
Icelanders have become "the world's first rebels against the idea of clearing up after the mess made by a reckless private bank."
Mar 7, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Friedmanism at the Fed Friedmanism at the Fed
How former New York Fed chair Stephen Friedman made a bundle on the AIG bailout.
Feb 25, 2010 / Feature / Greg Kaufmann