Will the Real Perpetrators of the Meltdown Ever Be Prosecuted?

Last week the U.S. Department of Justice announced the formation of the new Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. Among other things, this task force is charged with bringing to justice those individuals who caused the worldwide economic collapse. Ummm… OK.  So…does that mean that nobody was minding the store before this? Does this mean that [...]

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Too Big To Fail: The Big Bank Lie

About a year ago, when it looked like the world was about to end and the economies of countries around the world were beginning to melt away like a Salvador Dali painting, the leaders of the U.S. government, i.e. President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson told us that we had only days, maybe only minutes, [...]

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Can A New Housing Bubble Rescue Our Economy?

It was Albert Einstein who said that the definition of insanity is, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Congress has now passed legislation that will extend the first time home buyer tax credit deal – that’s the one that encourages people to buy a house now so they [...]

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The Public Option for Insurance – How about One for Banks Too?

In many of America’s large cities there are tall skyscrapers, and if you look at who owns the tallest of the skyscrapers you will often find that they are owned either by a major bank or a major insurance company.  If you care to think about that for a few moments I’m pretty sure you’ll [...]

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Is the U.S. Economy Dead or Is It Just Dying?

One year ago, the entire American banking system was on life support.  It was only through the intervention of the Federal government, using the promise of a semi-infinite supply of tax dollars that some of the banks survived.  If this infusion of billions and billions of dollars of cash had not been made our entire [...]

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