Last week, as the bailout bill was being debated, the blog Naked Capitalism got its hands on the tape of a secret Treasury Department conference call whereby government officials reassured Wall Street speculators that all the supposed Democratic "improvements" to Henry Paulson's original bill were speci

The last week has seen a tectonic shift in American politics and government. Those of us who opposed the $700 billion bailout have been proved correct, as the entire political, academic and financial Establishment has said what we were saying all along: the scheme to buy mortgage-backed assets is a giveaway to Wall Street, not a solution to a credit crisis.

Is Henry Paulson a crony communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.

During the debate over the bailout, many of us said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs executive, had crafted the bailout specifically to enrich his friends at Goldman Sachs.

Britain teaches us what the difference between an economic rescue and a Wall Street bailout is:

Whomever the next president is, he will have to confront economic, human rights, national security and environmental issues on a global scale. And that gives progressives the opportunity to expand the political discussion to the one issue that ties all of these together: International trade.

For the last few weeks, I've been publishing newspaper columns, making television appearances and writing blog posts pointing out that John McCain's f

I just arrived at my destination point at a secure undisclosed location in the mountains of Western Colorado. I just had to get away for a little bit - the last two weeks have been really intense.

Last week, as the bailout bill was being debated, the blog Naked Capitalism got its hands on the tape of a secret Treasury Department conference call whereby government officials reassured Wall Street speculators that all the supposed Democratic "improvements" to Henry Paulson's original bill were speci

The last week has seen a tectonic shift in American politics and government. Those of us who opposed the $700 billion bailout have been proved correct, as the entire political, academic and financial Establishment has said what we were saying all along: the scheme to buy mortgage-backed assets is a giveaway to Wall Street, not a solution to a credit crisis.

Is Henry Paulson a crony communist or a businessman? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.

During the debate over the bailout, many of us said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs executive, had crafted the bailout specifically to enrich his friends at Goldman Sachs.

Britain teaches us what the difference between an economic rescue and a Wall Street bailout is:

Whomever the next president is, he will have to confront economic, human rights, national security and environmental issues on a global scale. And that gives progressives the opportunity to expand the political discussion to the one issue that ties all of these together: International trade.

For the last few weeks, I've been publishing newspaper columns, making television appearances and writing blog posts pointing out that John McCain's f

I just arrived at my destination point at a secure undisclosed location in the mountains of Western Colorado. I just had to get away for a little bit - the last two weeks have been really intense.