Roosevelt Archive

February 2010

• Wise Woman Speaks to Wall Street: Elizabeth Warren calls for renewal of trust

  In her

  February 2010
• February 9

  “All you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• Bill Black to BofA Chairman: Racist bank adviser in Germany must go

  Bill Black’s letter to BofA Chairman Walter Massey calls for the immediate firing of Hans-Olaf Henkel, the bank’s

  February 2010
• Straws in the Wind: The 5 Supremes

  The discussion of the recent decision quickly degenerated into a charge from the Republicans that President Ob

  February 2010
• February 8

  “All you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• Moody’s Does it Again

  Marshall Auerback explains how credit ratings agencies are still spreading nonsense.

  February 2010
• A Roadmap of the Shadow Banks, plus targeting the Volcker Rule

  I just found a short, must-read presentation on the shadow banks. But first:

  February 2010
• African Americans and the New Deal: A Look Back in History

  Roosevelt historian David Woolner shines a light on today’s issues with lessons from the past.

  February 2010
• February 5

  “All you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• Overdrawn and Underwhelmed: A College Student’s Tale of Bank of America

  A senior at Sarah Lawrence feels the sting of Bank of America overdraft fees — and wonders why b

  February 2010
• Supreme Court Dons New Robes™

  Given the recent Supreme Court decision removing restrictions on corporate and union campaign contributions

  February 2010
• February 4

  “All you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• Book Notes: John Cassidy’s ‘How Markets Fail’

  John Cassidy’s latest explores the history of misguided economic theory and the forces that shaped the c

  February 2010
• Did Obama’s economists do their homework on the Volcker rule?

  Senator Chris Dodd is right to wonder, as he said yesterday, why the Obama administration waited so long to s

  February 2010
• Has the New York Fed been serving the public trust? Has Geithner?

  Questions about Geithner’s role in the bailouts as NY Fed president continue to swirl.

  February 2010
• February 3

  “All you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• “There is No Return to Self-Sustaining Growth”: An Interview with James K. Galbraith

  Roosevelt Institute Braintruster James K.

  February 2010
• A Quick Read of Luntz’s Financial Reform Memo

  From Huffington Post, we get Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform.

  February 2010
• On Not Wasting a Crisis

  Shaping the future with today’s choices.

  February 2010
• February 2

  “What you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010
• ‘Fear the Boom and Bust’ is a rap battle between Keynes and Hayek

  Who said economics had to be boring?

  February 2010
• Deficit Hawk Logic: Hummers, howitzers, and helicopters, yes. Health care, no.

  So is the government running out of money? Not when it goes on a military spending spree…

  February 2010
• The President Remains Trapped in the Talons of the Deficit Hawks

  Marshall Auerback explains why the deficit hawks have it all wrong — and why Obama must stop legitimizing their fa

  February 2010
• The State of the Union: High Marks for Style and Substance

  I intend to write this week on (1)the

  February 2010
• February 1

  “What you need to know to navigate today’s economic debate.”

  February 2010