Listen: Irish Banksters Plot to Take the Public’s Money

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 26, 2013 Tape recordings from inside the once-"doomed" Anglo Irish Bank reveal for the first time how the institution's top executives lied to the government about the extent of their losses at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 in a scandal that drove the nation into austerity, Paul Williams reports at The Irish Independent. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Credit

Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania Jun 3, 2013 Dig deeper

Housing Market Up

John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri Jun 2, 2013 Dig deeper

Feeding On the Small

Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China May 27, 2013 Dig deeper

Markets Rise to Record Highs

Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland May 9, 2013 Dig deeper

Dam Austerity

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons May 1, 2013 Dig deeper

How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch Apr 4, 2013 We think of the financial crisis as a man-made calamity, and Hurricane Sandy as the malignant innocence of nature. But neither the notion of a man-made nor natural disaster quite captures how the power of a few and the vulnerability of the many determine what is really going on at ground level. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Financial Crisis CEOs

Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons Mar 21, 2013 Dig deeper

Truthdigger of the Week: Dean Baker

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 16, 2012 “We all misjudged the risks involved,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in March 2010 of the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis. He forgot about economist Dean Baker. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Housing Starts Pick Up in September

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 17, 2012 Just in time for the election, the Commerce Department reported that construction starts on houses and apartments in September increased at the fastest rate since the beginning of the recession. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pandit Steps Down as Citigroup CEO

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 16, 2012 In a development that may please Truthdigger of the Week Sheila Bair, Vikram Pandit, the man who was in charge of megabank Citigroup during the financial crisis, left his job abruptly and with little explanation on Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Sheila Bair

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 14, 2012 Few voices in the regulatory community called for the expulsion of derelict executives and the means to force banks to lend bailout money to the public amid the 2008 financial crisis. Former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair was among them.Few voices in the regulatory community called for the expulsion of derelict executives and the means to force banks to lend bailout money to the public. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )