Truthdiggers of the Week: Two Mortgage Meltdown Whistle-Blowers

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2011 It's all too rare that a mainstream news network goes after just the sort of financial heavy hitters that tend to have ties to their own corporate sponsors, but thankfully, that's what CBS News' "60 Minutes" did last weekend with the help of two principled mortgage specialists. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

’60 Minutes’ Shames Justice Dept. Over Wall Street

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2011 "60 Minutes" got tired of waiting for the Justice Department to prosecute the big banks that caused the financial crisis, so Steve Kroft and his producers went out and built their own cases. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Evil Fed

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Sep 23, 2011 Dig deeper

Anonymous Leaks BofA Exposé

Staff / Truthdig Mar 14, 2011 The hacktivist group Anonymous has thus far distinguished itself primarily with its public grapplings with Scientology, but now the network of online provocateurs has edged into WikiLeaks territory with its first release of potentially compromising information about a Bank of America subsidiary. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Hires a Hustler

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 20, 2010 Behind the wonderfully engaging smile of this president there is the increasingly disturbing suggestion of a cynical power-grabbing politician whose swift rise in power reflects less the earnestness of his message and far more the skills of a traditional political hack.One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Outrage — and Business as Usual

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jun 9, 2009 The public face of Congress is angry and outraged at all the bad behavior by banks, but in the other Washington, the financial industry continues to have its way. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Our Loss Is BlackRock’s Gain

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 20, 2009 How much do you know about BlackRock and the hedge funds they manage? Better bone up fast, now that the folks at BlackRock are calling the shots in the government’s trillion-dollar bailout program. BlackRock execs are now directing key elements of the government program at a time when they stand to reap great profits from the fallout of a problem they helped create. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )