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The SEC and Investor Suffrage
Floyd Norris has an article in today's New York Times about a proposed rule-making that the SEC just
Wells Fargo's Counter-Stimulus Strategy
Roger Bybee's feature in our current issue shows how big corporations are taking the financial crisis and recession/
Card-Check Is Dead (Liza Featherstone)
From Slate's The Big Money blog: Card-Check Is Dead Unions are surprisingly bad at politics. By Liza Featherstone
U.S. May Add New Financial Watchdog
From today's Washington Post; hat-tip to LF: Consumer Agency Under Consideration By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Binyamin Appelbaum and
All That Glitters Is Goldman Sachs
Robert Zevin, president of Robert Brooke Zevin Associates and the founder of the socially responsible investment movement in the United
Science Fiction From Below
On Saturday I got to see a terrific new movie, Sleep Dealer, written and directed by Alex Rivera. It'
A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten
I stumbled on this nice piece over at Global Research: A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten We Hold These Truths: the
Michael Greenberger on Derivatives
C-Span had a nice segment on Friday with Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland, on derivatives.
Ethanol Snake Oil
BusinessWeek has an exposé on the pitfalls of ethanol. *It isn't better for the environment than oil; *It
'Sham' Bailouts Help Speculators
Naked Capitalism has a couple of nice posts about comments made by Michael Patterson, head of a private equity firm,
Steelworkers Attack ArcelorMittal
From yesterday's WSJ; find background on the situation in this feature article in our current issue. The CEO
The IMF as Big Banks' Debt-Collector
On the topic of the IMF and the "global financial community," here is a nice piece from Michael