August 29, 2008

Russia Trifles With Genocide

By: Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor's Editorial Board

Of Russia's many excuses for invading Georgia, its claim of preventing genocide has set back a new idea in human history. In 2005, the UN said the international community must intervene in countries suffering mass atrocities -...

August 28, 2008

Not Too Big To Fail; Despite What The Big Three Want, Taxpayers Should Not Be Obliged To Bail Out The Ailing Automakers.

By: Los Angeles Times

Faced with the imminent collapse of Bear Stearns Cos., leaders of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department used taxpayer guarantees to persuade JPMorgan Chase & Co. to scoop up the troubled investment bank. Similarly,...

August 25, 2008

How Long Will Politicians Look The Other Way On CEO Pay?

By: Christian Science Monitor
David R. Francis

Some 77 percent of Americans polled last year felt that corporate executives "earn too much." Most corporate boards apparently disagree. Last year, although the nation's economy was already in trouble, they gave the chief...

August 25, 2008

The Big Secret In U.S. Housing

By: Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor Editorial Board

Voters aren't likely to hear much before the election about plans to end government support for two giants in home finance, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yet like house prices, the federally backed entities are on the skids - as...

August 25, 2008

How Can Investors Help The Hungry?

By: Christian Science Monitor
G. Jeffrey MacDonald Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

When skyrocketing food prices triggered riots in more than a dozen countries from Haiti to Egypt earlier this year, investors committed to pursuing social justice weren't sure what to do.

"It's hard to figure out who to blame...

August 24, 2008

The Next President Will Disappoint You; There's Only So Much A Chief Executive Can Do.

By: Los Angeles Times
Andrew J. Bacevich, Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, is the author of the new book "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism."

On inauguration day, a new U.S. president is a demigod, the embodiment of aspirations as vast as they are varied. Over the course of the years that follow, the president inevitably fails to fulfill those lofty hopes. So the...

July 31, 2008

“Oil Markets: Principles, Perceptions, and Prices”

By: U.S. Treasury Department

Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs David H. McCormick; Remarks at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

July 26, 2008

Understanding the Foreclosure Crisis: Don’t Believe the Hype!; At the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Annual National Convention “Power, Justice, Freedom, Vote”

By: By James H. Carr, Chief Operating Officer, NCRC

Jim Carr, NCRC’s Chief Operating Officer was invited to speak at the NAACP’s 99th Annual Convention themed “Power, Justice, Freedom, Vote”. Speaking before 6,000 audience members at Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Center, Jim gave a...

July 22, 2008

Supporting Minority National Banks - Remarks by John C. Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, Before the Interagency Minority Depository Institutions National Conference, Chicago

By: Office of Comptroller of the Currency

I’m delighted to have this opportunity to talk to you today about the challenges and opportunities facing minority-owned banks in the United States.

July 17, 2008

Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate

By: Federal Reserve

July 15, 2008 and before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, on July 16, 2008