(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 19, 2009
Welcome to Bailout 2.0: Are We Still Looking at Financial Catastrophe? If the banks really have no clue as to what their exposure is; if they don't know exactly how many bad debts they hold, how can we even contemplate bailing them out, when we don't know what we are bailing them out of, what the bill is, or if we have the money to effect a realistic bailout?

SHARE        Friday, November 14, 2008
New Shoes on Old Debt-Current economic woes have 1980's roots Debt, debt service, and debt manipulation have often been used as political tools and economic warfare. Even now, foreclosure-generated land and wealth redistribution has the potential to restructure economies and political systems worldwide.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 13, 2007
It's going to be a lawsuit moment: class actions slated to restructure real estate market Industry critics say lawsuits will restructure the American real estate market. Is it already too late?

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 29, 2007
What's Race Got to do with It? Across the board, from auto loans to mortgages and credit card interest rates, black consumers, along with Hispanic borrowers often are targeted for expensive, high risk loans, lesser medical care and consumer credit fraud.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 7, 2007
U.S. Attorney Scandal Diverting Attention From Greater Issue The attention directed at the Bush Administration's US Attorney scandal ignores a larger issue: bias, corruption and incompetence on the bench.

SHARE        Sunday, December 2, 2007
Mortgage fraud: It's so bad feds just track cases over 50K Mortgage fraud has long since left the small operator behind. These days, the meat of the fraud is generated by organized rings of specialized thieves, including bankers, real estate brokers, government loan specialists and drug king pins.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 7, 2009
Is SEC ideology or structure at the root of the regulation fiasco? The catastrophic meltdown that we are currently experiencing was fueled by crony capitalism in Congress, the banks, brokerage houses and regulatory agencies. Congress lit the match and the whole thing went up in flames, which now threatens economies worldwide. The question of the day is: what's going to be left when the fire burns out?

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 8, 2009
Are Food Processors Gaming the System with Lab Shopping? We need to open our eyes and look at our real vulnerabilities. One careless or directed Typhoid Mary in our food production industry is just as dangerous as the terrorist that our "shoe police" are trying to keep out of the country. Congress needs to put teeth, personnel and passion into our food safety network.

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Political profiting from disaster capitalism: Campaign 08 Today's political candidates are trying to out do each other on how tough they would get on the financial industry, but the fact remains: anything "to be done" is merely closing the barn door after the fat cats have made out like bandits.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 24, 2007
Suckered Again: American Public Being Played for Stooges Many armchair pessimists continue to believe that the public is being used as puppets, in a variety of issues. Briefly put, somebody is yanking our chains and we are dancing like a herd of string puppets

SHARE        Friday, August 10, 2007
Desperate Times for Black Land Crimes Victim in Texas It's getting down to the wire and Sam Mims is getting desperate. The young black Texas rancher says he is the victim of what appears to be a long-standing conspiracy to run him off of his ranch-by any means necessary.

SHARE        Saturday, March 1, 2008
Showdown on Capital Hill-Auditors get bounced out of USDA USDA bounced a team of GAO auditors out of its offices, banning employees from talking to auditors. Congress is outraged.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 17, 2007
Foreclosure, fraud and third world living-In the United States All over the country, "Home, Sweet Home" isn't sweet any more. Through no fault of their own, thousands of people who live in apartments that are being foreclosed on, are left out in the cold. Although many have paid timely rents, owners, property managers and others have managed to keep from paying the mortgage on their property, sending apartments around the nation into foreclosure.

SHARE        Sunday, November 23, 2008
There's much to do: let's start saving lives our ownselves If ten people donated their month's latte or snack budget to an energy assistance agency, we could keep somebody's lights on, put some fuel in their oil tank, and, perhaps, save a few people from freezing to death.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Is the preoccupation with illegal immigration a WMD-weapon of mass distraction? The nativists are restless and they often do not distinguish between illegal and legal immigration.

SHARE        Friday, January 23, 2009
Fiscal tsunami swamps economy: Green Light for "Green Economy" Six months ago, many of the businesses and homeowners who are now sinking like a rock were creditworthy. Now, with Fortune 500 companies going down for the third time, they are taking Main Street, Wall Street and Electric Avenue with them.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 1, 2008
2008--The Year They Killed the Golden Goose The cost of the war, the risky derivative-based housing investments, and the weaker dollar are creating a perfect storm of financial catastrophe here and abroad. We have been playing Russian roulette with the economy and the bullet's now in the chamber. The piper will have his due-who's going to pay him, and in what currency?