Category Archives: In the News

TIME: What’s Still Wrong with Wall Street

Are you furious? If not, you should be. The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of dollars of our money, and are on track to hand out record-breaking multibillion-dollar bonuses while millions of regular folks are

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NY Times Op Ed: The Banks Are Not All Right

October 19, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist Click here for link By PAUL KRUGMAN It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. O.K., maybe not literally the worst, but definitely bad. And the contrast between the immense good fortune of a few and

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Politico: Dodd, Shelby lead on finance reform

By: Victoria McGrane October 19, 2009 04:53 AM EST Click here for link After the Treasury Department released its legislative draft for financial regulation reform in July, administration officials contacted Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd to set up a briefing. But the Connecticut Democrat