By DAMIAN PALETTA and JONATHAN WEISMAN — Wall Street Journal.
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to propose new limits on the size and risk taken by the country’s biggest banks, marking the administration’s latest assault on Wall Street … Read more »
By David Corn — MotherJones.com
So where are all the cries of judicial activism from the right?
By ruling today that corporations and unions can independently spend as much money as they want to back or trash congressional and presidential … Read more »
By Eric Lotke — OurFuture.org
People have been wondering for years who runs our country. People or wealthy
corporations? Today the Supreme Court settled the debate.
Today’s decision, Citizens United v. FEC, comes down decisively on the corporate side. It … Read more »
By Isaiah J. Poole — OurFuture.org
It does not matter whether today’s pronouncement on financial reform by President Obama was prompted by Tuesday’s election disaster in Massachusetts or was a long-building unleashing of his inner populist. What matters is the … Read more »
WALL STREET JOURNAL columnist and author of THE WRECKING CREW: HOW conservatives RUINED GOVERNMENT, ENRICHED THEMSELVES, AND BEGGARED THE NATION takes a look back at the decade that was.
BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL.
There were hands in the … Read more »
PoliticsDaily.com — David Corn.
On Tuesday night, just as votes were starting to be counted in Massachusetts, I was at a reception in Washington, and several labor officials were downcast, expecting the worst in the Senate race. One told me … Read more »
By Robert L. Borosage — The Huffington Post.
Democrats just got mugged by voters in Massachusetts. What will the party learn from the beating?
Already, the conventional wisdom in congealing. Democrats, says the benighted Joe Lieberman, should move to the … Read more »
By WILLIAM SCHNEIDER — Politico.com
The Massachusetts message to Democrats is, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” Because a full-scale populist revolt is breaking out in the country. Again.
Sen.-elect Scott Brown said on Tuesday night, “[Democrats] will be challenged again … Read more »
By Robert Kuttner — CommonDreams.org
How could the health care issue have turned from a reform that was going to make Barack Obama ten feet tall into a poison pill for Democratic senators? Whether or not Martha Coakley squeaks through … Read more »
By Paul Krugman — The New York Times.
The official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — the group that aims to hold a modern version of the Pecora hearings of the 1930s, whose investigations set the stage for New Deal bank … Read more »
