Marie Cocco / TruthdigMar 25, 2008
The housing crisis brings to mind Gordon Gekko, that fictitious ambassador of Wall Street whose words, then and now, remind us why uninhibited capitalism just doesn't work. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigMar 21, 2008
The Federal Reserve Bank's decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed credit to Wall Street banks was met with a stunned reaction typical of surprising events. But really, the move was the expression of longstanding isms that routinely package corruption as sound public policy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigMar 20, 2008
The government spread out a nice, soft net to catch the collapsing financial firm Bear Stearns. But if you're a little guy who gets in trouble, expect to meet up with a somewhat harder surface. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMar 19, 2008
After two months and 261 rounds of bidding, the FCC announced Tuesday that it has raised a total of $19.6 billion from the sale of the U.S. wireless spectrum. The revenue, slated to fund "public safety and digital television transition initiatives," is nearly double what Congress had previously estimated for the publicly owned spectrum. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigMar 18, 2008
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries, and how government should keep its hands off the private economy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Mark Arax / TruthdigFeb 8, 2008
It is said that behind every great fortune there is a crime. Here's a true-life drama of self-invention, greed and ambition involving four larger-than-life men who singly, and together, helped create California. A book to be read after you've watched "There Will Be Blood." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Benjamin Barber / TruthdigDec 14, 2007
Can an overheated market remedy an underachieving democracy? Can the public interest be served by an economic engine in which corporate rivals use government to quash their competitors? These and other questions are the subject of a provocative new book by Robert Reich, labor secretary under President Clinton. Benjamin Barber, author of "Jihad vs. McWorld" and "Consumed," takes a close look at Reich's argument. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Marie Cocco / TruthdigAug 30, 2007
With Labor Day approaching, it must not go unnoticed that Angelo Mozilo, chief executive of Countrywide Financial -- the company that has helped drive world markets into turmoil with its lending -- raked in $42.9 million last year. The Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was paid $2.5 million. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Ellen Goodman / TruthdigJan 11, 2007
Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli's golden parachute doesn't just speak to the inequality of income in America, appalling as it may be, but raises another issue just as troubling: the inequality of risk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 5, 2007
Despite all the outrage, Keith Ellison managed to get sworn in to the House of Representatives with his hand on a Koran without destroying democracy or cracking the rotunda. Appropriately, the Koran Ellison used once belonged to another wild and rebellious character: Thomas Jefferson. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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