Settling Scores With Wall Street Settling Scores With Wall Street
A lot of angry people in America are lusting to bring Wall Street geniuses who engineered the financial collapse to justice. And they just might succeed.
Feb 5, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Wall Street in Washington Wall Street in Washington
Of the three tax-challenged Obama appointees, only Timothy Geithner has survived. Is that luck or is there still something special about being from Wall Street?
Feb 4, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Why the Rush on TARP 2? Why the Rush on TARP 2?
Why rush to throw another $350 billion of taxpayer money at the Wall Street bandits and their political cronies who created the biggest financial mess since the Great Depression?
Jan 14, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Throwing Good Money… Throwing Good Money…
Instead of facilitating mergers, we should be reregulating the banking industry and enforcing real transparency.
Dec 17, 2008 / Nomi Prins
‘A Giant Ponzi Scheme’ ‘A Giant Ponzi Scheme’
What separates Madoff's Ponzi scheme from the follies of the bailed-out banks, and how is Blagojevich's pay-to-play any different from standard political fundraising?
Dec 17, 2008 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Bernard Madoff, Trust-Buster Bernard Madoff, Trust-Buster
The $50 billion fraud is bad enough. But the disgraced trader has done even more serious damage. He's destroyed trust in our financial system.
Dec 17, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis
Forget big bailouts. The fed should finance non-profit state banks like the Bank of North Dakota--no profit means no reason for bankers to misbehave--to get real money to real peop...
Nov 26, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Return of the Wall Street Hustlers Return of the Wall Street Hustlers
Obama, who promised change, has put the same old Wall Street hustlers on his economic team. Maybe he could send us an e-mail to explain.
Nov 26, 2008 / Column / Robert Scheer
How to Save Motor City How to Save Motor City
Letting Detroit fail: catastrophic. Transforming it into a lean green machine-maker: visionary.
Nov 25, 2008 / Feature / Marissa Colón-Margolies
Time for a Bank Holiday Time for a Bank Holiday
No more free money from Washington. No more masters of the universe. No more business as usual.
Nov 19, 2008 / William Greider