Economic articles

Budget/Tax, Business & Economic articles:

11.12.31 Extreme Predictions 2012
11.12.27 IBD: That Damn Ritholtz is a Member of the Media Elite!
11.12.27 2012: Stocks up 10% — or Doomsday scenario?
11.12.26 The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
11.12.24 Corporations gear up for major U.S. tax battle
11.12.24 Granholm: Jobs must be created here, not overseas - video
11.12.22 Dear Jamie Dimon,
11.12.21 Joe Bauer, Harvard Business Professor, author of "Capitalism At Risk: Rethinking The Role Of Business" - video
11.12.19 TRIVIA: This May Be Trivia, But the Implications are NOT Trivial!!!
11.12.17 The way to occupy a bank is to own one
11.12.16 Iraq war ends with a $4 trillion I.O.U.
11.12.11 Wall St's Latest Shameless Ploy to Fleece You
11.12.11 The Strenuously Hushed-Up Basic Flaw In The Tax Code
11.12.10 Sen. Bernie Sanders calls Citizens United ‘a blow to democracy,’ fights back with constitutional amendment - video
11.12.09 Republicans delay vote on insider trading limits
11.12.09 Rep. Cardoza’s plan to refi mortgages rebuffed by Obama administration (video)
11.12.09 Bailout Total: $29.616 Trillion Dollars
11.12.08 Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine
11.12.06 Tiny Tax on Financial Trades Gains Advocates
11.12.06 Jeffrey Sachs: 'The institutions of Europe are not really functioning' - video
11.12.06 America’s Next TARP Model (video)
11.12.05 Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable?
11.12.04 ContagionEx [video]
11.12.04 Socialism explained [video]
11.12.02 Merkel calls for quick move to fiscal union
11.12.02 Michael Hudson: Debt and Democracy – Has the Link Been Broken?
11.11.30 Euro Zone Looks to IMF for Increased Help
11.11.30 The E.C.B. Fiddles While Rome Burns
11.11.30 Banks find extra money to hire lobbyists
11.11.30 Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress
11.11.30 How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word
11.11.27 Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up
11.11.23 Banks Pressing for Foreclosure Settlement Before Investigation
11.11.21 Why We Are In Political Gridlock: The Private Sector Is Dying
11.11.21 Christine Lagarde: Facing down worldwide recession [video]
11.11.20 Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
11.11.19 Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom? [Interactive Graphic]
11.11.18 Super Committee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
11.11.17 The US is Now a Corporate Monarchy
11.11.17 Top Favorite Stock Holdings of Congress
11.11.15 Capitalism vs. the Climate
11.11.14 The Cognitive Dissidents
11.11.11 Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
11.11.09 Flat Taxes Are Big in the Former USSR. Have They Worked?
11.11.09 Why Mitt Romney's Entitlement-Privatization Plan Is Crazy
11.11.09 What Iceland Teaches Us: “Let Banks Fail”
11.11.05 Hey Mayor Bloomberg! No, the GSEs Did Not Cause the Financial Meltdown (but thats just according to the data)
11.11.05 Bill Nighy takes Robin Hood tax to the G20
11.11.05 Michael Hudson on the Showdown in Greece
11.11.03 Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush While Costing Business
11.11.02 A Conversation About Greece
11.11.01 Has America Become an Oligarchy? [Graphic]
11.10.31 Another Eurozone Country Bites The Dust
11.10.27 My seven-point plan to save the eurozone
11.10.27 Take note America: the public is angry
11.10.26 Cheat Sheet: What’s Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis
11.10.23 Nurses to Obama: Push for a Global Financial Transaction Tax, Now!
11.10.23 What We Can Learn from Germany: How Countries With Publicly Owned Banks Do Better Than America
11.10.23 The Wild Ride of the 1%
11.10.21 Millions of homes lurk on bank inventories, casting doubts of rebound
11.10.21 QE4 - forgive the students
11.10.19 U.S. Public Debt: Going Greek
11.10.18 Steve Rattner, Card Carrying Member of Top 1%, Tells Us We Should Lie Back and Enjoy Much Lower Wages Resulting From Globalization
11.10.16 The global economy is broken. Here's how to fix it
11.10.15 Clinton Adopts Jobs’s ‘Think Different’ Motto for Diplomacy
11.10.15 That Giant Sucking Sound
11.10.14 Did Fannie Cause the Disaster?
11.10.13 ‘Buffett Rule’ May Be Broken by 25% of Millionaire Taxpayers, Study Finds
11.10.04 Misrepresentations, Regulations and Jobs
11.10.02 How to stop a second Great Depression
11.09.30 Sheared by the Shorts: How Speculators Fleece Investors
11.09.29 Killing the Recovery
11.09.29 To Ease the Crisis, Tax Financial Transactions
11.09.29 Don’t count on Markozy to save you
11.09.28 US Has More Serious Problems Than Europe: Jim Rogers
11.09.27 Risks of entrenched unemployment in G-20 rising
11.09.26 A New Model to Bank On
11.09.25 Bank Mortgage Kickback Scheme Thrived Amid Regulatory Inaction
11.09.25 Conservative Concern: Runaway Inequality Will Destroy Economy
11.09.23 Inside the Trillion-Dollar Underground Economy Keeping Many Americans (Barely) Afloat in Desperate Times
11.09.23 Middle Class Death Watch -- 33 Frightening Economic Developments
11.09.20 Deficit Polls: Tax Increases vs Spending
11.09.18 Obama’s Lack of Focus Could Be Politically Fatal
11.09.16 What Wall Street doesn’t want us to know about oil prices
11.09.16 10 Steps To Prevent the Next Bank Crisis
11.09.16 The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass
11.09.15 California legislature passes bill to study state-owned bank
11.09.14 Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Economic Crisis: Joblessness, Excessive Military Spending and Healthcare
11.09.14 To Save Euro, Turn Banks Into Mutual Funds: Laurence Kotlikoff
11.09.14 Poll: 72% See U.S. Economy on Wrong Course
11.09.13 The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform
11.09.10 War–The Fiscal Stimulus of Last Resort
11.09.10 This Time is Different
11.09.07 Currency Wars, Trade And The Consuming Crisis Of Capitalism
11.09.06 For the Economy, the Real Slam Dunk Is Debt Forgiveness: View
11.09.06 Trade-based tax evasion costs US $53 billion/year
11.09.06 The Decline of Manufacturing in America: A Case Study
11.09.05 Inequality Has Wrecked the Economy
11.09.05 WP: Special Report on “Breakaway Wealth”
11.09.03 Speculating with Lives: How Global Investors Make Money Out of Hunger
11.09.02 CEOs rewarded most for raising unemployment
11.09.02 Banks Still Fabricating Docs, Commiting Foreclosure Fraud
11.09.01 North Dakota's Economic “Miracle”—It's Not Oil
11.08.31 Tax Me More, Europe’s Wealthy Say
11.08.28 Lagarde Urges Recapitalization of Europe’s Banks
11.08.26 The dead end of globalisation looms before our youth
11.08.24 Nouriel 'Dr. Doom' Roubini: ‘Karl Marx Was Right’
11.08.24 Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal
11.08.24 The Destructive Power of the Financial Markets
11.08.23 SPECULATIONS; Did the Chavez Gold Repatriation Impact the Stock Markets???
11.08.22 Forget TARP: Wall St Borrowed $1.2 Trillion from Fed
11.08.22 Economic Myths: We Separate Fact From Fiction
11.08.18 S&P And The Bilderbergers: All Part Of The Plan?
11.08.17 Nicolas Sarkozy Just Announced Plans For A New Tax On Financial Transactions
11.08.16 Did George W. Bush cause this crisis?
11.08.16 Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 2
11.08.16 Ending the Moral Rot on Wall Street, Part 1
11.08.13 800 years of financial crises
11.08.12 Meet the Global Financial Elites Controlling $46 Trillion In Wealth
11.08.11 Why are Treasury prices rising after the S&P downgrade?
11.08.09 An Experiment in Austerity
11.08.09 The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises
11.08.09 Sixth Biggest Stock Market Crash Ever
11.08.07 The Market Has Spoken: Austerity Is Bad for Business
11.08.06 10 Questions About S&P Downgrade
11.08.04 Odds of U.S. Recession Seen Rising by Academic Panel Majority
11.08.01 Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think [Graphic]
11.08.01 Debt ceiling: 10 lessons beyond that crisis
11.07.28 Orwell Watch: Banks Put a Happy Face on Demolishing Foreclosed Homes
11.07.28 Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics
11.07.24 An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington
11.07.23 Is There Hope for the Unemployed?
11.07.23 Matt Stoller: Dodd-Frank Made No Structural Changes to Banking System
11.07.21 Banks Pay Back TARP Funds by. . . .Borrowing from Treasury
11.07.21 Corporate America’s chokehold on wages
11.07.21 Could Tax Reform Make the Financial System Safer?
11.07.19 The Real Debt Deal
11.07.19 The Debt Limit and National Security
11.07.15 From Italy to the US, utopia vs reality
11.07.15 Why Banks Aren't Lending: The Silent Liquidity Squeeze
11.07.15 The Smartest Man in Europe Is Very Cautious
11.07.09 Caterpillar Said to Demote Whistle Blowing Exec
11.07.09 Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Offshore
11.07.09 Marshall Auerback: Time to Panic (II)
11.07.06 Debt ceiling probable outcomes up to the August 2 deadline
11.07.06 Wonkbook: The debt tradeoff Obama is willing to make
11.07.06 Dem seeks 50-50 split: Taxes and cuts
11.07.05 Dueling debt-ceiling strategies
11.07.05 Why Only One in Four Teens is Employed
11.07.04 TURNING POINTS: July 1776 and July 2011 are times for great changes...
11.07.04 Corporate Cash Con
11.07.03 Executive Pay, Revisited: Even Higher Than It First Seemed
11.07.02 Shock Doctrine: 'Emergency Finance Managers' and the Right-Wing's Power Grab
11.07.02 How the Bailout Killed Local Lending — and How Some States Hope to Get It Back
11.07.01 What’s a Crisis and What Isn’t
11.06.30 'War on terror' set to surpass cost of Second World War
11.06.30 First, Blame the Lenders
11.06.29 What's Happening With the Debt Ceiling Explained
11.06.29 How Greed Destroys America
11.06.29 Default not an option under U.S. Constitution
11.06.29 U.S. cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
11.06.28 Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning, Says Former Pentagon Official
11.06.28 Go Swedish, part 47
11.06.26 Wall Street and Republican lawmakers thwart US financial reforms
11.06.22 The Military as a Jobs Program: There are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate an Economy
11.06.22 Bill Gross: Deficit reduction can — and should — wait
11.06.22 The Destruction of Economic Facts
11.06.21 With executive pay, rich pull away from rest of America
11.06.21 No, Gov. Pawlenty, Tax Cuts Don't Pay for Themselves
11.06.20 All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
11.06.20 The worst tax cut in Washington
11.06.18 What the White House gets wrong on Medicaid
11.06.16 Wonkbook: Debt negotiators focusing on Medicaid
11.06.14 Can We Afford the Military Budget?
11.06.10 Investment Advice from George Carlin
11.06.10 The Great QE2 Flush Out
11.06.07 What Your Taxes Do (and Don’t) Buy for You
11.06.07 Stop Apologizing for the Stimulus
11.06.07 Time To Let The Bush Tax Cuts Expire?
11.06.07 The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out
11.06.06 World Top Incomes Database
11.06.04 From Dodd-Frank to Dud: How Financial Reform May Be Going Wrong
11.06.03 Republican: Pentagon will 'do anything' to get more taxpayer money
11.06.02 Yastrow: “We Are on the Verge of a Great, Great Depression”
11.06.01 Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves
11.05.31 Are Taxes in the U.S. High or Low?
11.05.28 Inviting Chaos: The Perils of Toying With the Debt Ceiling
11.05.25 Free Market troubles [Graphic]
11.05.25 Sharing Costs Is No Way to Fix Medicare [Graphic]
11.05.25 Social Security has a taxing problem, not a spending problem [Graphic]
11.05.24 How our debt happened
11.05.20 Economic Downturn and Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Projected Deficits [Graphic]
11.05.20 When Regulators Side With the Industries They Regulate
11.05.18 Bad Economics and Distortions of 1990 Budget Agreement Hold Deficit Reduction Hostage [Graphic]
11.05.18 Stop Criticizing Bernanke, Start Finding Investment Opportunities
11.05.18 Feds to States: “Drop Dead.”
11.05.18 What a Public Bank could mean for California
11.05.17 The Real Social Security and Medicare Problem (and a Doable Fix)
11.05.17 20 Startling Facts About the US Housing Market
11.05.16 As Debt Limit Reached, Agreement Still Far Off
11.05.14 Mitch Daniels, Architect of US Debt Crisis
11.05.14 How to Handle a Financial Crisis Like Iceland
11.05.14 How Corporations Get Out Of Paying Taxes: Graphic
11.05.13 Jezebels Undermining Financial Overhaul
11.05.13 Foreclosures crush home prices
11.05.13 The great corporate tax swindle
11.05.12 What Alan Simpson doesn’t know about life expectancy and Social Security
11.05.12 7 Ways Hedge Funds Lie, Cheat and Steal
11.05.11 Inflation Fears: Real or Hysteria?
11.05.09 Dodo Bird Bankers
11.05.09 How to Cut the Military
11.Ref. : Deficits can be eliminated without harming the non-rich, the old or the sick.
11.05.03 About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps: Interactive Map
11.05.02 Uh-Oh: Is Shiller Defending the Failures of Economists?
11.04.29 How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
11.04.28 Paul Ryan vs. the Truth
11.04.28 Wal-Mart: Our core shoppers are 'running out of money'
11.04.28 Energy Policy: Mark Fisher and Barry Ritholtz: Video
11.04.28 Debunking Paul Ryan's Latest Spin
11.04.27 Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don't Matter
11.04.25 Thinking About Spring
11.04.25 Cheapest Homes in 40 Years? Not Even Close...
11.04.24 Stiglitz Urges Global Currency System to Stem Imbalances: Video
11.04.24 Dollar’s Biggest Decline? 2001-08
11.04.22 No, Half Of All Workers Aren't Freeloaders
11.04.18 Thinking About Losses
11.04.14 A Crock Pot Tax-Exempt Idea
11.04.14 Time for Tax Justice
11.04.14 It’s Time to Retire Roth IRAs
11.04.14 Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?
11.04.11 Thinking About Bravado
11.04.11 Drifting Too Far From Shore: The Unresisted Rise of the Elite
11.04.07 Rep. Ryan's Free-Market 'Death Panels'
11.04.02 Ode To A Bad Power Elite
11.03.31 Japan Post's stalled sale a saving grace
11.03.28 60 Minutes' Video (13:34): The new corporate tax havens
11.03.27 Keeping The State’s Money In The State: An Alternative Solution To The Budget Crisis
11.03.21 Thinking About Japan
11.03.07 How Wisconsin can turn Austerity into Prosperity - Own A Bank
11.03.07 Thinking About Prices
11.02.21 Thinking About Madison
11.02.17 Restoring Economic Sovereignty: The Push for State-owned Banks
11.02.16 Obama's Anti-Populist Budget
11.02.14 Thinking About Intermission
11.02.14 Robbing Uncle Sam of Retirement Taxes
11.02.07 Thinking About Magic
11.02.04 The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks And Investors Are Starving The Third World
11.01.24 Washington State Joins Movement for Public Banking
11.01.24 Thinking About Pensions
11.01.23 Economic Turmoil in 2011
11.01.19 China's Hu Arrives to Look Around
11.01.17 Banking in Venezuela
11.01.15 America Replicating Japan
11.01.14 The Fed has spoken: No Bailout for Main Street
11.01.13 Hard Times in Illinois
11.01.10 Fairer Tax Reporting, Finally
11.01.10 Thinking About Epiphanies
11.01.05 Thinking About More
10.12.27 Thinking About Accounting
10.12.25 Rising Poverty in America and Israel
10.12.20 Thinking About Attention
10.12.20 Social Inequality in Israel
10.12.19 Central Banking 101: What the Fed can do as “Lender Of Last Resort”
10.12.02 Is QE2 The Road to Zimbabwe-style Hyperinflation? Not likely
10.11.29 The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger
10.11.22 The Naked Truth about Capital Gains
10.11.22 Destructive Neoliberal Austerity
10.11.20 WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND QE2?
10.11.16 Class Warfare Jeopardizing American Workers' Security
10.11.15 Thinking About Lame Ducks
10.11.15 American Style Free Trade
10.11.14 Channeling Reagan on Tax Reform
10.11.08 Thinking About Jekyll Island
10.11.06 Quantitative Easing: Elixir or Poison?
10.11.06 ForeclosureGate Could Force Bank Nationalization
10.11.01 Thinking About Responsibility
10.11.01 Wall Street Philosopher King Bashes Fed Policy
10.10.30 American Job Loss Is Permanent
10.10.30 China's Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus
10.10.29 Time for a New Theory Of Money
10.10.26 Congressional Fleecing the Public Legislation
10.10.25 Thinking About Business
10.10.25 Taxes: Messing With Mankiw
10.10.25 Systemic Washington-Sanctioned Fraud
10.10.18 Thinking About Closings
10.10.16 Time to Break Up the Too-big-to-Fail Banks?
10.10.13 America's Third World Economy
10.10.11 Fraud in America
10.10.08 Foreclosuregate and Obama's 'Pocket Veto'
10.10.06 Let’s Fix America’s Rotten Business Plan
10.10.06 Wrecking the American Dream
10.10.05 Taxes in America: A Long Rightward Lurch
10.10.03 The Altars of Fear: Wrong Turns on a Long, Dark Road
10.10.03 Shock Therapy for Wall Street: JPMorgan suspends 56,000 Foreclosures; GMAC and BOA many more
10.09.27 Thinking About Unraveling
10.09.25 The Credit Meltdown and the Shadow Banking System: What Basel III Missed
10.09.22 Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Profit
10.09.21 Growing Poverty in America
10.09.20 Thinking About Recipes
10.09.20 Obama's New Consumer Watchdog
10.09.19 Basel III: Tightening The Noose On Credit
10.09.09 Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
10.09.08 A Tax Break Nobody Needs
10.09.06 Thinking About Labor
10.08.30 Thinking About Fear
10.08.27 America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy
10.08.19 Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes be Foreclosure-proof?
10.07.23 Why the U.S. need not fear a Sovereign Debt Crisis: unlike Greece, it is actually Sovereign
10.07.15 Some Hard Truths about America
10.07.15 How Brokers became Bookies: the Insidious Transformation of Markets into Casinos
10.07.12 Thinking About Spending
10.07.05 Deficit Hysteria: Wrongheaded in Times of Depression
10.07.03 2.0 Canada: Billion Dollar Cops Take on the Nerf Army
10.06.30 Deficit Terrorists Strike In The UK - USA Next?
10.06.28 Competing Ideologies: G20 v US Social Forum
10.06.21 Thinking About Reserves
10.06.18 Deficit Terrorists Strike In The UK - USA Next?
10.06.15 Reverse Mortgage Reality Check
10.06.07 Banks Profit From Near-Zero Interest Rates: Another Reason For States To Own Their Own Banks
10.05.24 Thinking About The Exits
10.05.22 The Mysterious CAFRs: How Stagnant Pools of Government Money Could Help Save the Economy
10.05.14 The Return of Madcap Capitalism
10.05.10 Thinking About Explanations
10.05.08 Stock Market Collapse: More Goldman Market Rigging?
10.05.04 Explaining the Plunder and the Crime
10.05.03 Will Hollywood Go The Way Of Enron? Derivatives Come To The Movies
10.05.03 What Real Financial Reform Looks Like
10.04.28 Pete Peterson’s Anti-Entitlement Juggernaut
10.04.24 Computerized Front Running: How A Computer Program Designed To Save The Free Market Turned Into A Monster
10.04.20 Goldman Sachs: Master of the Universe
10.04.19 Thinking About Warnings
10. 04.12 Thinking About Taxes
10.04.05 Thinking About Assistance
10.04.01 Bogus Washington-Proposed Financial Reform
10.04.01 Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially In The Banking Business
10.03.19 The Growing Movement For Publicly-Owned Banks
10.03.19 America's "Houdini Recovery" under IMF-Type Austerity
10.03.14 The Crisis in America's Telecommunications Network
10.03.09 The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
10.03.05 Is the Recovery Real?
10.03.04 IMF-Style Austerity Measures come to America: What “Fiscal Responsibility” Means To You
10.03.04 Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and Economics of Destruction"
10.03.02 Obama's Budget Revealed: Money for Wars and Weapons, While More Americans Face Joblessness and Hunger
10.03.01 Thinking About Fees
10.02.22 Campaigning for State-Owned Banks
10.02.22 Social Security Will Fall To Obama Before The Taliban Do
10.02.19 Obama’s Stealth Entitlement Commission
10.02.19 Selling Out America to Wall Street
10.02.15 Thinking About Incentives
10.02.07 AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist
10.02.06 The Free Market Fetish
10.02.04 The Crisis is Not Over
10.02.03 States Face Worsening Recession with Health Care Funds on the Chopping Block
10.02.02 Rule by the Rich
10.01.29 The Battle of the Titans: JPMorgan vs. Goldman Sachs
10.01.27 State of the Union: Obama’s “Automatic IRA” Plan Could Make Bush’s Wildest Dreams Come True
10.01.26 Obama, Read Your Reagan on Capital Gains Taxation
10.01.24 Funding Public Health Care with a Publicly-Owned Bank: How Canada Did It
10.01.18 Thinking About Accelerants
10.01.15 Lessons from America's Lost Decade
10.01.11 Thinking About Gadgets
10.01.11 The Recession Is Over, the Depression Just Beginning
10.01.04 Escape from Pottersville: the North Dakota Model for Capitalizing Community Banks
10.01.04 Thinking About 2010
09.12.23 Forget the Happy Talk: Longer, Deeper Recession Lies Ahead, Execs Warn
09.12.21 Thinking About Presentation
09.12.18 EU/IMF Revolt: Greece, Iceland, Latvia May Lead the Way
09.12.14 Thinking About the States
09.12.07 Thinking About Recovery In The New Year
09.12.03 How States Can Escape the Credit Crisis: Own a Bank
09.12.02 Abolish the Fed and Return Money Creation Power to Congress
09.11.30 Thinking About Recovery In The New Year
09.11.25 New Study Shows Ten States Face Fiscal Crisis
09.11.23 How CEOs Rip Off Pensions
09.11.23 Thinking About Food at Thanksgiving Time
09.11.16 Thinking about Buying
09.11.14 Goldman Sachs Tells How to Cash in on Health Care Reform
09.10.29 Our Out-of-Whack Economy and the Happy Talk Propagandists
09.10.27 Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
09.10.26 Thinking about Valuations
09.10.22 The Rich Have Stolen the Economy
09.10.16 Funding Sweatshops Globally
09.10.15 The World Bank Needs Critical Reforms Before It's Allowed to Saddle the Developing World with more Debt
09.10.14 Reviewing Danny Schechter's "The Crime of Our Time"
09.10.12 The Ugly Truth About the 401(k)
09.10.09 Marx and Lenin Reconsidered
09.10.06 Follow the Money
09.09.24 The Economy is a Lie, Too
09.09.04 Predicting Worse Ahead from America's Economic Crisis
09.08.26 Growing Poverty and Despair in America
09.08.04 Keeping It Real: This Recession Ain't Over by a Long Shot
09.07.31 How Fake is the "Recovery"?
09.07.17 What Economy?
09.07.16 To Mitigate Economic Armageddon: Slash the Defense Budget
09.07.09 Ancient Israeli Myths Deter Peace
09.07.01 Pirates of the Mediterranean
09.07.07 We Don't Need General Motors
09.07.01 Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:" The Economic Strategy of Imperial America
09.06.23 Obama's Financial Reform Proposal - A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
09.06.10 Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney
09.06.04 What Makes Sense for Health Care Makes Sense for Cars: Auto Industry Needs a Public Option Too
09.06.04 Towards a sound economy
09.05.29 Manipulation: How Markets Really Work
09.05.27 Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally
09.05.20 "Over the Rainbow"
09.05.18 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part VI
09.05.15 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part V
09.05.13 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part IV
09.05.11 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part III
09.05.11 Thinking about Stresses
09.05.08 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part II
09.05.06 Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part I
09.05.04 'One More Bubble!'
09.04.27 Thinking of GLOBAL-ity
09.04.20 Thinking About Treatments
09.04.20 Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box"
09.04.20 Too Big to Fail
09.04.18 Barack Obama: Crime Boss
09.04.13 Thinking About Taxes
09.04.10 Obama's New World Order
09.04.09 Politicized Accounting: No End to the Scams
09.04.02 Shut Out: How the Cost of Higher Education Is Dividing Our Country
09.03.31 The Crisis on Withering Heights
09.03.27 Is the Bail Out Breeding a Bigger Crisis?
09.03.27 Obama's Latest No Banker Left Behind Scheme
09.03.26 Protecting Capital or People?
09.03.24 Treasury and the Fed Don't Need New Powers, They Need to Use the Power They Have
09.03.23 Thinking About Toxicity
09.03.23 "Down the Memory Hole," Alan Greenspan Style
09.03.21 When Things Fall Apart
09.03.20 Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
09.03.18 Now We Can See Why Open Government Is the Only Way to Go
09.03.16 Thinking About Performance(s)
09.03.16 Monetary and Fiscal Failure, Fraud, and Fear of What's Next
09.03.11 Wall Street Socialists
09.03.09 Thinking About Juggling
09.03.05 Kiss the Banks Goodbye and Refocus on Rebuilding the American People
09.03.02 Thinking About Bigness
09.03.02 Systemic Failure: Capitalism "Lays an Egg"
09.02.28 Feudal Gestures: Bailout Lords and Their Modern Peons
09.02.25 How the Economy was Lost
09.02.24 Tough Times in Troubled Towns
09.02.23 Thinking About Nationalizations
09.02.23 Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis
09.02.19 President of Special Interests
09.02.16 Thinking About Accelerations
09.02.16 Toxic Plans for Toxic Assets
09.02.13 A Short History of US Government Handouts
09.02.10 Driving Over the Cliff
09.02.09 Should the Catalyst to Stem the Economic Meltdown be a Stimulus—or a Laxative?
09.02.05 A New Administration, Tired Old Policies
09.02.04 The Death of American Leadership
09.02.03 Competing Ideologies: Davos v. Belem
09.02.02 Thinking About Inventories
09.02.01 Follow the Money: Are Taxpayers on the Hook for Hundreds of Billions of Dollars for a Credit Crisis that Was Overblown?
09.01.29 Is It Time to Bail Out of America?
09.01.28 The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back
09.01.26 The Annual Bailout of ‘Investors’
09.01.26 Thinking About Transparency
09.01.23 The unexamined question: Who is going to finance the next wave of debt?
09.01.14 Only Rats Get Fat as Misdirected Bailout and Stimulus Funds go Down the Rat Hole
09.01.13 Our Collapsing Economy
09.01.12 Thinking About Keynes
09.01.09 Time for Obama and Us to Face the Economic and Political Music
09.01.09 Will There be a Recovery?
09.01.05 Thinking About the 2008 Numbers
08.12.29 Thinking About Realities
08.12.26 Early Suspicions About Bernard Madoff
08.12.24 The Federal Reserve Abolition Act
08.12.22 Thinking About Expectations
08.12.12 Excess Debt and Deflation = Depression
08.12.08 Thinking About Autos
08.12.08 The Global Economic Crisis - Bad and Worsening
08.12.03 Obama's Economic Dream Team?
08.12.02 Beyond the Bailout State
08.12.01 Thinking About The Dow
08.11.26 Does Anybody Else Think Getting America Shopping Again is Crazy Talk?
08.11.24 Thinking About Thanksgiving During this Economic Downturn
08.11.24 Lurching Toward Gomorrah: More Signs of An Unstoppable Economic Meltdown
08.11.23 America’s economic crisis is beyond the reach of traditional solutions
08.11.21 The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy
08.11.17 Thinking About Numbers
08.11.17 Worse Than the Great Depression?
08.11.12 Global Economic Tremors
08.11.11 “Too Big to Fail” Has an Easy Answer: Anti-Trust or Public Control
08.11.10 Thinking About Clocks
08.11.07 The Wages of Sin
08.11.04 America’s ‘Economic Egotism’: World Tires of Rule by Dollar
08.11.03 More from the Front Lines of the Financial Crisis
08.10.31 The End of Prosperity
08.10.28 The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power
08.10.27 Thinking About Bears
08.10.27 Public Enemy Number One
08.10.22 This Time Is Different
08.10.22 Responding to the Financial Crisis: Butter, Not Guns
08.10.20 Thinking About Lulls
08.10.20 Hard Times
08.10.15 Thinking About D.R.O.P.s
08.10.13 Not Enough Money in the World: The Real Monster in the Meltdown Closet
08.10.13 The October Surprise - Global Panic
08.10.06 Thinking About Treason
08.10.06 The Fleecing of America
08.10.03 Can a bailout succeed?
08.10.02 Empire of Greed
08.10.02 No Surprise in the Senate Bailout Vote
08.10.02 How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying The Dollar
08.10.02 The Specter of Wall Street
08.10.01 We Need to Demand Hearings!
08.09.30 Surprise! Congress Listened to the Voting Public!
08.09.29 Thinking About Gyrations
08.09.29 Grand Theft America
08.09.26 Seizing America by Withholding the Mother’s Milk of Politics
08.09.26 Framing the $700 Billion Question
08.09.26 Bail Out NO, Buy Out YES
08.09.26 Just Say "No" to Any Immediate Bailout
08.09.26 Has Deregulation Sired Fascism?
08.09.25 Don't Fuel the Fire: Fire the Arsonists
08.09.25 America Pays the Piper, Big Time
08.09.24 Just Thinking Aloud Here
08.09.23 What Nobody's Saying: The Bailout Will Kill the Dollar
08.09.22 Thinking About Escalations
08.09.18 US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling From Direct Hits
08.09.18 US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling From Direct Hits
08.09.17 Creative Destruction: The Solid Core Behind the Financial Crisis
08.09.16 You Can't Feel Blue About the Economy If You Want To. There Are No Blue Chips Anymore
08.09.15 Thinking About Spotlights
08.09.15 U.S. Economy—Temporary Respite, Permanent Decline
08.09.08 Thinking About Seizures
08.08.04 Thinking About Ponzi
08.07.29 Thinking About Umbrellas
08.07.21 Thinking About Interventions
Running on Empty
A Work Force Betrayed
Paul Krugman and Blindness About the War and the Economy
Thinking About Turnarounds
Thinking about Dependence
Health-Care Crisis Endangers Economy
Thinking About Installments
"Immoral Hazard"
"Immoral Hazard"
Thinking About Contractions
Thinking About Strategies
Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
Thinking About Subtleties
The Oil Vice
The US Economy and the Costs of War
Thinking About Shakiness
Watching the Dollar Die
The Fading American Economy
Thinking About Couples
Thinking About Standing-s
Thinking About Disclosures
The Collapse of American Power
Questionable Trading Practices May Have Led to Bear Stearns’ Collapse
Thinking About Implosions
The Bad News at the Pump
Thinking About Checkbooks
Peak Oil - True or False
Thinking About Sisyphus
Thinking About Benchmarks
Thinking About the Presidency
Something Had to Give
Follow the Money? God forbid.
Thinking About Rogues
Going Bankrupt
The Bush Dollar Trap
Thinking about Regulating
No Tax Rebate's Going to Fix This Mess
Thinking about Trends
D.C. Infatuated With Investors
Thinking about 2008
Thinking about Sovereigns
Billionaire Bailout: Central Bank Socialism and America's True Values
Thinking about "Economic Conditions"
Thinking About Revenue
Thinking Mone-TERROR-ism
Thinking About Giving
Thinking About Write-offs
Thinking About Cuts
Resources for Planning Retirement
Thinking About Gold
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
About Those Destroyed Houses in California
Run, Don't Walk, Away from Obvious Risk
UAW Sellout at GM and Chrysler
Thinking about Risk
Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap
Thinking about Gomer
Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked
Thinking About Questions
Thinking about Venezuela
Thinking about Payments
Thinking about Liquidity
Uncle Sam, Your Banker Will See You Now
Dropping Shoes
$Trillions upon $Trillions: Has U.S. Maxed Out its Platinum Cards Yet?
Shock-and-Awe Overload for this Econ News Junkie
Thinking about Truth and Illusion
Thinking Trade
Thinking Upside Down
Reader response: Inflation? You'd Better Believe It!
THINKING INFLATION
Losing the Economy to Mythology
Thinking About Budgets—the “La-La” Land of Governmental Accounting
Thinking Immigration
Controlling America: Regulation vs. Deregulation of Electricity and Other Industries
The Great Oil Robbery
Thinking Dealings
Thinking Markets
The Federal Reserve Monopoly Over Money
THINKING CREDIT
The Spurious, Curious Case for Low Taxes on Capital Gains
US-Iran: Raid on nuclear fuel market
Thinking About Volatility
Economists in Denial
Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy
How the World Can Stop Bush: Dump the Dollar!
THINKING P-oil-ITICS
THINKING DOMINOES
Santa Claus Is Chinese
THINKING MONETIZATION
Beyond the Repeal of the 'Death Tax'
Thinking About U.S. Fiscal Records
Thinking about Dilemmas
The Words of the 'Profits' Are Written in the 'Congress Halls'
One Tax Tweak That’s Worth Billions
Thinking About Chairman Bernanke
Thinking About Chess—and the Global Economy
Thinking About Globalism
Prostitution of Power
Thinking About Omens
Thinking About Proxmire
Thinking About Shopping: How Black Friday Made Me Feel Like Rambo
Thinking about Strategies--and Survival Politics
Thinking Scary Thoughts
Thinking about Rates, Part 3
Thinking About Rates, Part 2
Thinking About Rates, Part 1
Thinking about Management, Katrina, FEMA and Logistics
Thinking 'Crude' Thoughts
China has an Economic Strategy; Do We?
TH*NK*NG ARABIA
Water Supply Worries Trump Oil
Thinking about US Dependence on Independence Day
Thinking About Empire
Memorial Day Inspires Thinking About Costs--To All of Us
We Need To Revise Our International Trade Policies
Is the Housing Market Going to Crash?
Watch the March 16 OPEC Meeting Closely, Folks!
The Euro/Dollar Roller Coaster Ride
Pt. 1: Social Security Under Siege: A Water Tank Analogy
A Dangerous Game of Global Poker
Instead of Raising the Federal Debt Ceiling, the Public Should be Raising the Roof
The US Dollar as the World Turns
Will US Senate Dare to Raise the Debt Ceiling Before the Election?
Beware the Social Security Raiders of the Public Covenant
All About Money
Thinking About (Oil) Refinements
Our Economic Future: A Declaration of "I'm Scared"
The Free-Market Al-Qaeda
US Must Budget Enough for States’ Security Needs
‘Death Tax’ Deception
National Economic Trends
How a Progressive Approach Could Improve the Economy
U.S Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact
European Union Swats U.S. Corporation Subsidies
We Need a Comprehensive Energy Policy
Sovereign Corporations: spotlight on NAFTA’s “chapter 11”
How Federal Tax Dollars Are Being Spent
Loans to Avoid
Fed Budget: the True Scandal of U.S. Politics
The Fake Federal Budget Surplus
Corporate Deception Could Mean End of the Bull Market
Gravy-Train Wreck Ahead?
Study Shows Increasing Gap Between Rich and Poor
The Corporate Crime Wave In America
CEOs Won't Give Up Corp. Welfare
Nike's Business Practices
Can Voluntary Giving Make Up For Government Cutbacks?
Oil Companies Fail To Pay Full Public Royalties
Increasing Wealth Inequality Is Weirding Out Have-Nots
Review: "End Of Work"
Why Are Workers So Anxious?
Why Salaries Keep Sinking
Worker-Owned Companies
Strategic Labor Organizing
New Robber Barons