Financial System

The Republicans are back in charge in the House of Representatives this week, and not a moment too soon! Forget "stimulus" bills and "shovel-ready" Bailouts (for public School Teachers, who need shovels for what they're teach…

You know, Robert Rubin spent six years working full-time to raise his own taxes and decrease his own market power... Robert Rubin went to work for the Clinton Administration in 1993 with four goals: (1) to make the decision-making process work s…

"There is something about too much prosperity that ruins the fiber of the people." -- Diplomat Dwight Morrow In 1933, the president awoke to the news that the United States banking system had collapsed. Unemployment had reached 25 percent. Hour…

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said on an end-of-the-year Conference Call yesterday afternoon that “we’ll see confrontation on spending issues” in the next Congress, vowing that the President will fight effort…

Only in the fever-swamps of the left could anyone believe that the Republicans on the FCIC sought to "ban" the words "Wall Street," "shadow banking," "interconnection," and "Deregulation" from the commission's report. The drafts of the report we …

Incoming GOP Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) recently warned John Boehner that a move to raise the nation's quickly approaching Debt ceiling without first attempting drastic Spending Cuts could quickly repulse the Tea Party base. Scott, a Tea Party-back…

Republican hostage-takers got President Obama to go along with their Tax Cuts for the wealthy by threatening to raise taxes on the Middle Class and blocking even modest stimulus funds for our struggling economy. Now the Republicans have identif…

Republican hostage-takers got President Obama to go along with their Tax Cuts for the wealthy by threatening to raise taxes on the Middle Class and blocking even modest stimulus funds for our struggling economy. Now the Republicans have identif…