| Oct 1, 2013 | Economy / BusinessSomeone should make a movie about JPMorgan and title it: “Bankers Gone Wild.” Not long ago, America’s biggest Wall Street Empire was hailed as a paragon of financial integrity. Not now. JPMorgan has been assessed record fines of nearly a billion...
| Sep 25, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe Hollywood blockbuster film, Elysium, depicts a polarized Los Angeles in the year 2154. The vast majority of inhabitants live in overpopulated and polluted slums, toiling in grinding poverty. Meanwhile, a wealthy elite live on Elysium, a space station modeled after...
| | Economy / BusinessWatching grown men fulminate in public can be unnerving. Michael Piwowar and Daniel Gallagher — two distinctly CEO-friendly members of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission — recently did plenty of fulminating. Piwowar and Gallagher had little choice. They...
| | Economy / BusinessAs our jobs And pay degrade, Moguls smirk And tout “Free Trade” It’s no wonder President Barack Obama refuses to let Americans see those two new trade deals he’s negotiating. Neither the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) nor the Transatlantic Trade and...
| Sep 18, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe federal budget expresses our nation’s values and priorities in numbers. It’s a blueprint for how our elected officials plan to make money and how they plan to spend it. What happens in Washington, D.C. has a profound local impact. About 80 percent of...
