10 Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt
Who says we need to borrow a trillion dollars to save Wall Street from its own excesses?
When the Betting Goes Bad
A review of “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Crisis of American Capitalism,” by Kevin Phillips (Viking, 2008).
In Wake of Crash, McCain Talks Tough About CEO Pay Will Congress Call His Bluff?
The candidate is proposing a radical restriction on pay for CEOs of bailed-out firms. But is he serious or is this just election season populism?
Of Coffee and Capitalism
The rise of Starbucks also seems to correspond with the expansion of the go-go economy.
The Bailout and CEO Pay: What’s ‘Excessive’?
Congress should use the bailout to reform executive pay, not maintain it.
The Bailout and ‘Greedy’ CEOs
Congress should use the proposed bailout legislation for much-needed reform.
A Violent Mexican ‘Independence’ Day
For most Mexicans, celebrating the country’s independence has become a sad contradiction with reality.
Bring Them Home…from Asia
U.S. military presence in South Korea and Japan has outlived its usefulness.
Tax the Speculators
A fair plan to pay for economic recovery.
The Ab-surge-ity of it All
President Bush continues to claim, and McCain and Palin repeat, “The Iraqis are better of because they’re free” and remain free thanks to the surge. But the new dictionary has interesting synonyms for the word “absurgeity.”
East Asias History Wars Rage On
Northeast Asians wage war over history.
Starbucks v. Ethiopia
It was a classic confrontation between a poor underdog and a wealthy transnational corporation. But then the story took an unexpected twist.
Boris and Hugo
The saga of how London’s new mayor nixed his city’s bizarre “oil for brooms” arrangement with Venezuela.
The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs from Chad
After funding a predictable boondoggle of a pipeline, the international lender hightails it out of an impoverished African nation.
The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs from Chad
After funding a predictable boondoggle of a pipeline, the international lender hightails it out of an impoverished African nation.