Food Prices Will Rise by George Washington - May 3, 2010 5:55 pm Oil spill + bee collapse + speculation = higher food prices ...
Oil Spill: Here's The Inside Scoop by George Washington - May 2, 2010 7:33 pm A big picture overview ...
Cut the Partisan Crap ... BOTH the Private Sector AND the Government are to Blame for the Financial Crisis by George Washington - May 1, 2010 11:26 pm Don't fall for 'ye ole divide-and-conquer strategy ...
If We Broke Up Standard Oil, We Can Break Up the Giant Banks by George Washington - Apr 30, 2010 3:19 pm Paging, Teddy Roosevelt ...
5 Reasons We Must Break Up the Giant Banks by George Washington - Apr 30, 2010 3:17 pm Anyone (I'm talking to you, Larry Summers) who says that giant banks aren't bad for the economy should be sent this list ...
PHYSICAL Gold is a Reasonable Investment Right Now by George Washington - Apr 30, 2010 12:14 am Gold, now?
Congressman Miller Introduces Bill Breaking Up Big Banks by George Washington - Apr 29, 2010 8:57 pm "Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Regulate"
No Wonder the Eurozone is Imploding by George Washington - Apr 28, 2010 10:23 pm European central bankers and politicians have been as dumb as their American counterparts ...
Greek 2 Year Yields 20 Percent, Italy Up 6 Basis Points, Portugal Up 7 Basis Points, Spain Up 27 Basis Points by George Washington - Apr 28, 2010 11:52 am Not just Greece ...
Unemployment for Those Who Earn $150,000 or More is Only 3%, While Unemployment for the Poor is 31% by George Washington - Apr 25, 2010 2:27 am The poor are suffering Depression-level unemployment, while the well-off aren't feeling a thing ..
Mega-Banks Which Received Bailouts Slashed Lending More, Gave Higher Bonuses, and Reduced Costs Less Than Banks Which Didn't Get Bailed Out by George Washington - Apr 23, 2010 7:38 pm Yet ANOTHER reason the TBTFs should be broken up ...
No, Canada's Big Banks Don't Justify America's Too Big to Fails by George Washington - Apr 23, 2010 7:37 pm Derivatives might be useful, but when 5 American banks have most of 'em - and are insisting they not be made transparent - recipe for disaster ...
Economist James Galbraith: Economists Should Move into the Background, and "Criminologists to the Forefront" by George Washington - Apr 22, 2010 8:11 pm Forget the economists ... call in the criminologists.
Are Interest Rate Derivatives a Ticking Time Bomb? by George Washington - Apr 22, 2010 12:31 pm Interest rate derivatives certainly help many individual businesses control and hedge their costs. But when a bunch of individuals all attempt to reduce their risks at the same time in the same way, it can increase the risk to the overall system.
Krugman: Break Up the Giant Banks to Stop Their Domination of the Political Process by George Washington - Apr 20, 2010 6:32 pm I applaud and welcome Paul Krugman's clarification ...