Staff / TruthdigAug 25, 2009
After heading up the Fed during the nation's biggest economic catastrophe in decades, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will be nominated to continue his role for a second term, according to another top Obama adviser, David Axelrod. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 27, 2009
On Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met the media, or at least PBS "NewsHour" anchor Jim Lehrer, along with some concerned citizens of Kansas City, Mo., to discuss how the Fed has dealt with the ongoing economic catastrophe over the past few months. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 28, 2009
Even though this CBS report seems to want to make a feel-good story out of this one, it's more the stuff of nightmares, despite 90-year-old Ian Thiermann's good-natured take on his fate. After being retired for 30 years, Thiermann discovered that he'd lost his entire retirement fund due to Bernie Madoff's shenanigans, and now Thiermann is working for $10 an hour in a California supermarket. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigJan 14, 2009
Like many other people, I’d like to party all week when Barack Obama is sworn in as president. But this isn’t the year for it, not with unemployment rising and fear spreading through the land. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 11, 2008
Perhaps we should be more surprised than we are by the news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his DOT crew managed to sneak a handful of sentences into the approved bailout bill that amounted to a $150-billion "quiet windfall" for American banks, as The Washington Post put it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigOct 22, 2008
Instead of running with the "European socialist" crowd, as John McCain has claimed, Barack Obama has turned to the same American “free market” elite that views government as merely a corporate subsidiary. Even within that group, however, there are serious splits, and the more enlightened side seems to be winning. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 15, 2008
On Sunday, The Washington Post ran an Op-Ed piece written by McCain campaign adviser Donald Luskin in which he argues that, despite "trouble spots in the economy," recent comparisons between the present moment and the Great Depression are the product of "pessimists" and "politics." Over to you, Alan Greenspan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Chalmers Johnson / TruthdigJul 28, 2008
Since 1961, there has been too little serious study of, or discussion of, the origins of the military-industrial complex, how it has changed over time, how governmental secrecy has hidden it from oversight by members of Congress or attentive citizens, and how it degrades our constitutional structure of checks and balances. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 5, 2006
The Gray Lady publishes a slew of important and underreported stories its Saturday edition:
Two federal courts strike down the Partial Birth Abortion Act because it doesn't have an exception for the life of the mother
Yahoo and AOL are going to introduce digital postage stamps that companies can buy to ensure delivery of their e-mail
Most Internet users have no idea how easy it is for courts to get ahold of their personal information
The personal savings rate of Americans falls below zero for the first time since the Great Depression
Now James Frey's editor says that he, too, was fooled by the fabricating fabulist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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