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"Banker" and "morality" are not concepts you would ever expect to find paired together, but some of the biggest bankers in Europe are rushing out to insist that, at heart, they are all about morality...
When you cast a vote, should it be counted just as you cast it? Well, of course, you shout! After all, voting is sacrosanct. Why wouldn't every single one of our votes count just as each voter intended? They should...
If either party in Washington were to get serious about reining in Wall Street greedheads, here are two good ideas for achieving that. The first comes from Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who, ironically, has introduced a bill that is the essence of classic capitalism...
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We are nearly speechless (rare in our office), and thrilled to announce that Hightower is the recipient of the 2009 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Below are the full details in a press release sent out this morning.
Whip In Presents Edible Austin Eat Local Week Meet the Local Brewers Happy Hour 4-8pm Friday 11 December $20 event ticket gets you a Pint Glass & Six Beers...
Tavern on the Green is one of New York City's iconic places. With a tranquil setting in the city's beautiful Central Park, this legendary, decades-old eatery and banquet hall is enormously popular...
Sometimes, Congress gives hypocrisy a bad name. Take Mike Enzi, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Jim Inhofe, Jon Kyle, John McCain, and Richard Shelby. Those U.S...
The "Drug War" is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will You might remember Robert McNamara's stunning mea culpa, delivered a quarter century after his Vietnam War policies sent some 50,000 Americans (and even more horrendous numbers of Vietnamese) to their deaths in that disastrous...
It used to be that corporate CEOs drew their narrowly-focused business ethic from the laissez-faire novels of Ayn Rand – but today's corporate chieftains seem to be drawing their business models from "The Godfather" and Robert de Niro's Mafia movies. Take Goldman Sachs. ...
How can you tell when a consumer product might be one you should avoid? Easy. Whenever a corporate spokesperson declares that the product in question "complies with all U.S. laws and regulations" – run away as fast as you can. ...
Well, at last, a few of the Wall Street CEOs we are bailing out with our tax dollars have had their sails slightly trimmed...
Let us all praise his Excellency, Hamid Karzai, for his magnificent beneficence! Karzai – the head of Afghanistan's inept, grossly corrupt, and widely despised government – has finally been forced to admit the obvious: he stole the August 20th presidential election. He...
Bankers at Goldman Sachs have a problem and I'm sure you can empathize. Maybe you can even help them! Here's the problem: They're making too much money. Altogether now: Awwww...
Because of lost jobs and falling wages, millions of Americans find themselves falling into debt – and learning that debt can be a vicious master. They're not alone, for many companies are also struggling with debt. ...
Gather 'round children, and a true tale I'll tell, about how privatization does not go well. In the past decade or so, there has been a rush by public officials to privatize government functions. Corporations, they cried, can do any public job better and cheaper...
