John Kerry: McCain’s Interrupting Bailout Negotiations to Save John Kerry: McCain’s Interrupting Bailout Negotiations to Save
John Kerry takes McCain to task for playing politics with our nation's crumbling economy. If only he had been this bold four years ago!
Time for a Taxpayer Revolt Time for a Taxpayer Revolt
The bailout package isn't a compromise: it's an appalling transfer of wealth upward. Register your protest!
Sep 29, 2008 / Editorial / Medea Benjamin and Arun Gupta
No Bailout! No Bailout!
A look at the passionate protests on Wall Street in opposition to the $700 billion bailout proposal.
Sep 29, 2008 / Video / Laura Hanna and The Nation Video
We Have the Bailout Money–We’re Spending It on War We Have the Bailout Money–We’re Spending It on War
If we don't reduce military spending now, the bankruptcy of the United States is inevitable. We don't have much time left.
Sep 29, 2008 / Feature / Chalmers Johnson
Bailout: What’s Next? Bailout: What’s Next?
The bailout crisis represents the Democrats' hesitant first step toward rediscovering their nerve and abandoned convictions. They are not there yet.
Sep 29, 2008 / Feature / William Greider
America Needs a New New Deal America Needs a New New Deal
We should apply FDR's principles of relief, reform and reconstruction to our current financial crisis.
Sep 27, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser
Henry Paulson’s Shell Game Henry Paulson’s Shell Game
The emerging compromise on the bailout is better than Paulson's original proposal, but falls far short of what needs to be done. Congress and the next president will have a lot mor...
Sep 26, 2008 / Feature / Joseph E. Stiglitz
Acts of Contrition Acts of Contrition
The road to recovery requires more than a bailout. Americans deserve apologies from Washington and Wall Street--and a new president capable of telling the truth and leading us forw...
Sep 26, 2008 / Feature / William Greider
Regional Banks Can Solve the Credit Crisis Regional Banks Can Solve the Credit Crisis
Take a lesson from Andrew Jackson: Rely on regional banks, not Wall Street, to get money in the hands of people who need it.
Sep 26, 2008 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Next Bull Market The Next Bull Market
Instead of shoveling good money after bad, Congress should push Wall Street to invest in the booming green economy.
Sep 25, 2008 / Feature / Glenn Hurowitz