To those apologists that claim that the megabanks have repaid their TARP loans, thus no harm no foul for the egregious bubble behavior that ...

This blog has consistently urged more accountability for financial elites at the megabanks. While the Obama administration clearly gets ...

It is hard to overstate the impact of megabank derivatives trading on our economy. Although three years after Dodd-Frank they remain a vi...

Jeffrey Skilling mug shot Public Domain Interesting and relevant corporate news over the past several days.  In catching up on recent s...

The War on Drugs has been waged in a wildly discriminatory manner .  The decision to wage the war on drugs in urban and poor communities f...

We all remember the unpleasant days of late 2008. As evident from the above, financial instability led to a solid two years of job loss...

  S&P downgraded Italy earlier this week. European financial experts project that Italy will need a financial bailout within six mo...

I watched many fireworks this past few days. I also ate well. In between, I thought hard about this celebration of America. In particula...

Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancik have just released the third edition of their seminal compilation Critical Race Theory: The...

Professor Atiba Ellis Steven Ramirez posted yesterday on the Supreme Court's tone deaf holding in Shelby County v. Holder where the...

  Yesterday, by a 5-4 vote , the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . Although originally signed into la...

The Supreme Court today released its awaited affirmative action decision. The full text of the opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas is...

Corporations are legally permitted to expend general treasury funds for charitable purposes.  Indeed, corporations are encouraged to contr...

"Kids for Cash" Judge Mark Ciavarella News out of the United States this week in connection with the debacle that is the for-p...

Once again, JP Morgan Chase finds itself at the center of controversy.  Casual Wall Street observers must be asking themselves, "...