Bailed out Banks in the News
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: – Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend…
Bailed out Banks in the News
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: – Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend…
Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions — PNAS
This from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. For those out there that have any lingering doubts about humanity’s role in warming our fragile planetary…
Banks to Defend themselves Before Congress
Next Wednesday, Feb 11th, CEOs from the first eight banks to receive funding from the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will testify before congress to explain…
Banks to Defend themselves Before Congress
Next Wednesday, Feb 11th, CEOs from the first eight banks to receive funding from the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will testify before congress to explain…
Banks to Defend themselves Before Congress
Next Wednesday, Feb 11th, CEOs from the first eight banks to receive funding from the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will testify before congress to explain…
Beware Subprime Carbon
With the economy in meltdown, it’s no wonder that everyone is casting around for a fast way to make a buck. You can hardly turn around without hearing more dismal…
A stimulating stimulus?
The new administration is up to its eyeballs trying to pull off an economic stimulus package that will genuinely stimulate the economy while also (to their credit) meeting another critical…
The Spectre of Nationalization
It wasn’t that long ago (I think we can count it in months actually) that the terms ‘nationalize’ and ‘banks’ just wouldn’t ever have been found in the same sentence….
First Nations Petition Obama on Native Rights vs. Dirty Energy
How will an Obama Administration handle Native Rights issues in the face of fossil fuel expansion? That’s the question raised in a good article from by Joe Friesen in the…