Archives for “Activism”

Harmless Halloween fun? A sign of growing public rage? All of the above? Happy Halloween:)

Just a quick plug for this excellent film (Via Big Picture).  Shot mostly in 2006, the film starts as an expose on credit card usury, ...

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who writes its laws.” -Nathan Rothschild, 1838 We are being robbed blind.  Yes, the ...

There's a myriad of causes at the heart of this crisis, from mortgage and appraisal fraud, to CDO squared derivatives, to rating agency and monoline ...

Though several watershed events of deregulation and a prolonged flood of Federal Reserve Bank liquidity plainly created the conditions for the real estate bubble, some ...

While the din of fear and panic over the Bailout legislation drowned out the voice of the American public, we learned this week that acting ...

At $45 trillion, the notional amount of CDS in existence is now fast approaching the total amount of credit market debt outstanding in the entire ...

Now that the Senate has passed a boated and, absent raising the FDIC insurance limit- materially indistinguishable bill from the one that the House voted ...

So far, the revised Paulson Plan looks very bad. Suspends mark-to-market pricing (not surprising, as it would BK many banks), allows banks to maintain ...

We are at a critical juncture in our country's history.  Congress is being pressured to pass a bailout package that will cost the taxpayers trillions ...

Please read this, Petition: Economists against the Paulson Bailout Plan.

Here's the text of what I've been mailing and faxing to my Senators and Representatives in Congress.  Feel free to co-opt all or part of ...

Opining on the news of the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac seizures by the Treasury Department, both Presidential candidates, as well as President Bush have ...

That is the sound of your party pilfering our bank accounts (socializing the losses), to pay for their bad investments. In the last twelve ...

Friday, after markets closed, word leaked that the Treasury will announce plans to nationalize Fannie and Freddie in the largest private bailout in our nation's ...

From The Economist: The FDIC will soon have to replenish its deposit-insurance fund, which collects premiums from banks and stood at around $53 billion before the ...

Here's an interesting commentary on how the FED is allowing highly leveraged trades of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bonds for hard cash from the ...

It is hard to avoid addict analogies when discussing the politics of oil these days.  Just like the junkie who'll do anything to get one ...

Well, now that the financial train-wreck that has been occurring in slow motion for over a year has finally penetrated the collective consciousness, Federal Bureaucrats ...

Ask yourself, when was the last time that you heard an elected official give a speech as candid, reconciliatory and down to earth as this ...

As this 4th of July approaches, lots of thoughtful Americans among our 304 million citzens are likely contemplating what this 230th year of our country, ...

Newsweek is running this story, reprinting a letter in its entirety from Larry Johnson—a former CIA officer--blasting Tenet for his failure to take responsibility for ...

I learned about this site when I saw it advertised on a car's bumper sticker right here in Tucson. The site has some interesting ...