When the United States Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission earlier this year, many commentators , includin...

Remember those horrific last days of the Bush Administration when in September and October of 2008 global capitalism collapsed and the Bus...

As detailed on this blog, last week the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) released the first of what will be quarterly status report...

Case closed . Oh yes, there are the so-called GSE investments. Problem there is that they lost a relatively measly $20 billion. Hardly enoug...

The Basel III accords released this weekend may seem like financial and accounting minutia, but it actually goes to the very heart of the ...

I enjoyed reading Prof. Ramirez's previous post and think the analysis is spot on. I slightly disagree, however, with his policy prescr...

President Obama announced a brand new $50 billion (over six years) infrastructure bill today which is infinitely more than any GOP proposal...

Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, provided some interesting insights in the New York Times this week on the 2008 economi...

Economist Paul Krugman warned in early 2009 that if the administration failed to stimulate the economy appropriately and resorted to more ...

Now that the financial reform bill is in its final state, we finally have a clear look at what lawmakers view as the problems that led to th...

The Dodd-Frank Act can only be termed an epic failure of policy . The Act includes some positive elements such as the corporate governance...

Steve Ramirez has provided an excellent assessment of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill over the past several weeks as he has gone throug...

As the above chart from United for a Fair Economy shows, even high income minorities are much more likely to end up with high-cost, subpri...