‘My Party Has Lost Its Soul’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 28, 2014 In a Salon review Sunday of Ralph Nader's spring 2014 book "Unstoppable," Bill Curry, former White House counselor to President Bill Clinton, takes Democrats led by Clinton and Barack Obama to task for making their party an indentured servant of Wall Street and gifting economic populism to the right. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Volcker Rule Made Meaningless by Abundant Exemptions

Nomi Prins / Truthdig Dec 19, 2013 The Volcker Rule has finally been approved by regulators, but with hundreds of pages of exemptions, too-big-to-fail banks have little to fear. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Senators Introduce New Glass-Steagall, ‘Motorcyle’ Abortion Bill Passes, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 12, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including a Koch brother campaigns to get rid of the minimum wage and the Texas woman who was silenced by state lawmakers while testifying against a restrictive abortion bill gets "the last word." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What Obama Should Do Now

Robert Reich / Truthdig Mar 5, 2013 I’d make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America’s Future Act. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Having ‘Skin in the Game’

By Ralph Nader Dec 7, 2012 Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new tour de force book "Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder" is a frame-of-reference altering work that a Wall Street Journal reviewer confessed he would have to read “again and again” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Will Timothy Geithner Lead Us Over or Around the Fiscal Cliff?

Robert Reich / Truthdig Nov 28, 2012 If “pragmatic deal maker,” as The Wall Street Journal describes Geithner, means someone who believes any deal with Republicans is better than no deal, and deficit reduction is more important than job creation, we could be in for a difficult December. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt

Robert Reich / Truthdig Oct 19, 2012 President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Update: 25 People at the Heart of the Meltdown

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 7, 2012 At the height of the financial crisis, The Guardian identified 25 bankers, economists, politicians and financial officials who helped bring about the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. What are they up to now? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Pinch Me: What Did Sandy Weill Just Say?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 25, 2012 Sanford Weill -- the former Citigroup CEO who led the charge to repeal Glass–Steagall and bring about the era of "too-big-to-fail" banks -- is stunning critics by calling for the breakup of behemoth financial institutions. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

For He’s a Jolly Good Scoundrel

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 19, 2012 The men most responsible for the collapse of the American dream are heaped with honors at the highest levels of society. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

My Consensus, Right or Wrong

Staff / Truthdig Mar 21, 2012 With the revival of The Baffler, former WSJ columnist and current Harper’s Magazine contributor Thomas Frank reveals that success in Washington and big business has everything to do with belonging to the right pack, especially if that pack was dead wrong about the economy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 2, 2012 That Lawrence Summers and Bill Clinton, the president he served as treasury secretary, can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason.That Lawrence Summers and Bill Clinton can still get away with disclaiming responsibility for our financial meltdown is an insult to reason. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )