Words from the Wise?

Michael J. Panzner, 10.16.2009

Author of When Giants Fall and Financial Armageddon

I just got back from The Economist's "Buttonwood Gathering" in New York and thought I'd share a few of the more interesting (and, in some cases, quite...

Left, Right & Center: Wall Street VS. Main Street, Health Care, Balloon Boy

Huff Radio, 10.16.2009

Is the economy on the rise just because Wall Street hit 10,000 again? What about that 10 percent unemployment figure? The dog that hasn't barked yet: ...

Health Insurers Have It All But Want Still More

Norman Goldman, 10.16.2009

Attorney, Syndicated radio show host, 'The Norman Goldman Show'

The health insurance industry has us all by the throat -- and yet they want more! They have a "10 Point Stranglehold Program" on America -- but they want 13. Here's what I mean:

Goldman Sachs' Black Magic, Here's How They Did It

Dylan Ratigan, 10.16.2009

Host of "Morning Meeting" on MSNBC and WABC Radio Show.

The question is not why did we bail out the banks. The question is why did we give the banks billions so they could buy assets by the trillions and keep the profits?

Top Green Consumer Trends for 2009: Which Predictions Came True?

Robyn Griggs Lawrence, 10.16.2009

At the end of last year, our friends at The Fresh Ideas Group went out on a limb with some public predictions about how Americans would act in 2009. As the year winds down, let's see how they did.

Jim Cramer's "Call Of A Lifetime," Revisited

Henry Blodget, 10.17.2009

Columnist and blogger on investing, the Internet, and financial markets

Jim Cramer's stock "call of a lifetime" came 53 weeks ago, on October 6, 2008. But was it really so wise?

OMG! Greenspan Goes Populist

Les Leopold, 10.16.2009

Author of The Looting of America

For Alan Greenspan, the apostle of free markets, to admit that financial free markets are not self-correcting is an enormous concession.

Companies As Buy-And-Sell Commodities - Workers, Customers and Country As Costs

Dave Johnson, 10.16.2009

"Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere."

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a ...

The Dow and the Down and Out

Sen. Bernie Sanders, 10.16.2009

Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont

The top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Rewarding Failure: The Bail-Out Bonuses on Wall Street Continue

Robert Creamer, 10.16.2009

Political organizer, strategist and author

If world-class, reckless risk-taking continues to receive massive economic rewards, then we are headed to another financial collapse in two years -- or five years; or fifteen years.

Pardon the Interruption, But...

Steven Weber, 10.16.2009

Actor, wise-ass

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

Financial Crisis Worked Out Well for Goldman Sachs

Alan Schram, 10.15.2009

Managing Partner of Wellcap Partners, a hedge fund based in Los Angeles

Now that Goldman Sachs is a regular commercial bank, it actually trades more. This makes sense: if the US Treasury covered my losses, I would also be happy to take major risks.

Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?

David A. Love, 10.15.2009

Writer and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia

American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.

How to Live On $0 a Day: Bailouts for the Rest of Us

Lesley Stern, 10.15.2009

Writer, counselor to the nouveau poor

It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.

Reviving the Local Economy With Publicly-Owned Banks

Ellen Brown, 10.15.2009

Author, "Web of Debt"

Despite trillions of dollars in bailout money, bank loans fell to their lowest rate since the onset of the Great Depression. Now that the Fed has done all they can, is it time for the states to step in?

Wall Street's Favorite Democrat Misrepresents Financial Watchdog Elizabeth Warren

Mike Elk, 10.15.2009

Campaign for America's Future

Democratic Congresswoman Melissa Bean is earning the title of Wall Street's favorite Democrat. The leader in the New Democrat Coalition has pocketed almost $2.2 million from the banking and financial services interests.

Wall Street Treasury Complex is the Problem

Diane Francis, 10.15.2009

Editor at Large, the National Post

An examination of the causes of the financial meltdown and proposals for reform to prevent new catastrophic bubbles from forming and bursting.

Our Ambivalence With the Arts Makes Bad Education and Economic Policy

Dylan Kendall, 10.15.2009

Founder and Executive Director of Hollywood Arts

No Child Left Behind, which bases educational success on reading and math testing, leaves little time for arts education, first in California and now in the nation at large.

Good to Know: White House "Not Cool" With Trillion-Dollar Deficits

Henry Blodget, 10.15.2009

Columnist and blogger on investing, the Internet, and financial markets

We had the White House's Christina Romer on TechTicker this week. She says the president's "not cool" with our huge deficits.

Young in America

David D. Burstein, 10.15.2009

David D. Burstein is the director and producer of the documentary film, 18 in '08.

By most indicators young people are the most adversely affected age group by the economic crisis, the most at risk when it comes to health care coverage, and the deepest in debt.

Big Bank Profits Spark Rally in Cocaine, Hooker Sectors

Andy Borowitz, 10.15.2009

BorowitzReport.com

The historic profits notched by the nation's biggest banks are starting to have a positive impact on the broader economy, with the cocaine and hooker sectors showing striking gains.