corruption

Over the past several days, I have caught some very good commentary by a number of well-known financial industry experts. I wanted to share my own thoughts with you on their commentary, especially in light of my last posts on Eisenhower's…

While today is a national holiday in the United States, in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it is also the 50th anniversary of former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous farewell presidential address. Ike's speech warned…

Michael Hudson reviews the reasoning behind income tax policy in the 20th century, a good lesson in financial history. Interestingly, he says that data show tax cuts have been followed by slow growth in the US.

I spoke to Max Keiser recently about a number of issues in a wide-ranging interview featured below. In the video, Max and Stacy Herbert talk about some of the hot button issues of the day like the banking sector in Ireland and the lack of…

I want to take you through how we got from the financial system's "systemic insolvency" to bailouts to record profits and bonuses again in the span of two years. From the WikiLeaks cables as published in the Guardian today…

In a speech given on November 20, 2010 at the ADA Education Fund’s Post-election Conference at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Professor James K. Galbraith asks for whom President Obama is really working.

This is about how site scrapers use loopholes in the Google Search algorithm to rank highly for content they scrape from the sites of others. These activities may eventually become an issue for regulatory officials since Google also earns…

A guest post by Matt Stoller, the former Senior Policy Advisor for Rep. Alan Grayson and progressive commentator. Follow him on twitter @matthewstoller. In a cross-post from New Deal 2.0, Stoller outlines why Libertarians, Tea Party…

The 30-year campaign of the wealthy to rig our economic system – especially the tax component – for their own benefit will accelerate with the GOP capture of the House of Representatives and the likely capture of the presidency and Senate…

Of course they are. Watch this clip of Eric Schmidt to hear what he says in this regard. Is his experience in the telecom and technology space any different than what happens in the financial services space? The other quote that I found…