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Business & Corporations


Present at the Re-Creation
These seven liberal financial experts are our best hope for truly fixing the economy.
September 14, 2009 |

The Ultimate Bear Market
The uncouth bankers who brought down Bear Stearns make for an entertaining story. But the real responsibility for the crisis lies elsewhere.
July 24, 2009 |

The GM "Precedent"
The real challenge before the administration is to promote policies that foster whole new industries, not that save individual firms.
June 3, 2009 | | web only

Green Peacemaker
Can Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, meet businesses' needs without alienating the environmental-justice movement?
May 28, 2009 |

The Competence Dodge
Liberals should not allow themselves to believe that the experience and competence of Obama's economic team are substitutes for true progressivism.
December 29, 2008 |

America's New Year's Resolution: A Return to Integrity
As we prepare to usher in a new year and a new administration, let's all pledge to rediscover our moral way in this country.
December 22, 2008 | | web only

A Tame Regulator for the SEC
Appointing a safe, Wall Street favorite like Mary Schapiro to chair the SEC does not augur well for Obama's pledge to get at the roots of the financial crisis.
December 18, 2008 | | web only

A Global New Deal
The next New Deal won't work if it's only American. Fixing our economy will require fixing international systems.
December 15, 2008 |

McCain's Dangerous Do-Nothing Economics
The Great Depression was caused by a banking system left to self-destruct by a conservative president who, like John McCain today, insisted that the economy's "fundamentals" were strong.
September 16, 2008 | | web only

Our CEOs, Their Foreign Agents
From our July/August print issue: International business executives with enormous domestic influence cater to the demands of authoritarian regimes abroad.
July 29, 2008 |

All the Young Bankers
A new generation of business-minded young graduates of prestigious colleges finances the Democratic Party -- but at what cost?
July 16, 2008 |

You May Say I'm a Dreamer
Two men of the '60s considered: Charles Halpern, who helped create public-interest law, and Tony Mazzocchi, who helped create occupational health and safety standards.
May 27, 2008 |

How We Got Into This Mess
Trade, the war on unions, and underfunded schools all lowered wages. Cheap credit propped us up -- but now the debt is due. Herewith, a national economic strategy to turn America around.
April 21, 2008 |

An Unfamiliar (Economic) Game
Wall Street has become addicted to taking enormous risks and sticking taxpayers with the bill. As a result, financial panics are causing real recessions and returning us to the 19th century.
April 3, 2008 | | web only

Rewards Without Risks for Wall Street
Our tax dollars are being used to protect Wall Street from the consequences of its own risky decisions. It's time to stop giving them a free ride.
April 2, 2008 | | web only

The Manufacture of Uncertainty
In his new book, Doubt is Their Product, David Michaels describes how the corporate practice of "manufacturing uncertainty" has taken over our regulatory system and undermined our health.
March 28, 2008 |

The Simplification Dodge
Why is the tax code so impenetrable? It's all those tax breaks for the rich.
March 24, 2008 |

Black Hawk's Gamble
Black Hawk is one of three Colorado towns that decided to allow limited-stakes gambling. Residents have learned the hard way that the house always wins.
March 10, 2008 |

Financing the Common Good
After three decades of government starvation of necessary resources, the next president needs to champion progressive taxation with the proceeds invested in social outlays that make for a more productive economy.
February 1, 2008 |

The Conservative Origins of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
Everything you ever wanted to know about the mortgage meltdown but were afraid to ask.
December 18, 2007 | | web only

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