By: Newsday (New York)
James Klurfeld. James Klurfeld is a professor of journalism at Stony Brook University.
james.klurfeld@stonybrook.edu
The failure of the House of Representatives to pass the $700 billion financial bailout bill Monday reveals two very disturbing aspects of our modern political culture: the triumph of ideology over common sense and the...
By: The Dallas Morning News (Texas)
By William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News
Many of us still must be wondering how this financial meltdown came up on us as fast as a storm over the Rockies, but at least we understand that we're entering a time much like the early 20th century, when regulating runaway...
By: Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
Thomas Sowell
Congress is never more ridiculous than when it tries to look like it is serious.
In the midst of a major national financial crisis, what was one of the first things Congress zeroed in on? The pay of chief executive officers...
By: Investor's Business Daily
Justice: A federal grand jury in New York is probing the accounting shenanigans at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's about time, and we hope it doesn't end there.
Remember the early 2000 s, when companies such as WorldCom, Enron,...
By: Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor's Editorial Board
The House lawmakers who sank the financial rescue package Monday said their phones and e-mails burned with protests that Main Street has to bail out Wall Street. But it's not helpful, or even accurate, to view this crisis as...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
No wonder Americans aren't happy about the ideas being considered to resolve the deepening financial crisis. The task is to choose among bad options - and to do so in a hurry.
But amid all the debate about whether "Main Street"...
By: Los Angeles Times
California and six other Western states are preparing to launch a dramatic campaign against global warming that will turn pollution into a commodity that can be bought and sold, and create a market for trading hot air. It's an...
By: Newsday (New York)
BY SOL ERDMAN AND LAWRENCE SUSSKIND. Sol Erdman, president of the New-York-based Center for Collaborative Democracy, and Lawrence Susskind, director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program are co-authors of "The Cure for Our Bro
Congress' efforts to negotiate a financial rescue bill were ill-fated from the start. The issue is so controversial that to craft a proposal that most lawmakers could endorse would have required that the "right" negotiators...
By: PR Newswire
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following the stunning defeat of the proposed $700 billion bailout, the nation needs a "virtuoso team" of leaders to guide the overhaul of the US financial system, a...
By: Los Angeles Times
No one in Washington has a better view of the global credit markets than Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. So when they say the situation is dire, it's not as if a couple of...
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