Bill Moyers had our boy David Sirota on his show Friday, along with Thomas Frank (historian and new Wall Street Journal columnist), and the three dove into the $700 bailout passed last fall and its ...

America remains deeply conflicted about federal regulators’ crisis response. By Neil Irwin The loan portfolio consists mostly of commercial real estate loans in Ireland and Britain but also includes ...

In a recent social media post, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read defended the state’s election practices after President ...

In the past week a number of boldfaced names including Sen. Lindsey Graham, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, economist of the moment Nouriel Roubini, and ex-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan have suggested ...

Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Sunday that bank nationalization was "as American as apple pie" during a round-table discussion on "This Week" with George ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...

The U.S. banking system is in “a death spiral,” said Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini in The Washington Post, and only an “all-out government takeover” can prevent a complete collapse.

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The nationalization of even a handful of U.S. banks, which some analysts see as increasingly likely, would pose political problems for President Obama. Obama has worked hard to portray himself as a ...

In his Sunday news briefing on the coronavirus response, President Trump was asked about the Defense Production Act, which the government can use to spur businesses to create needed supplies. "The ...