How could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as well? What caused this mess in the first place? Housing? Greed? Dumb politicians? What can Main Street do about it?
Drinking the Financial Kool-Aid: Day 2 and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Hearings
Drinking the Financial Kool-Aid: Day 2 and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Hearings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/drinking-the-financial-in_b_42...
Shadow Boxing with the CEOs: Day One at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Hearings
Shadow Boxing with the CEOs: Day One at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Hearings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/letting-the-big-boys-off_b_422...
The Tea Party Flourishes, Progressives Flounder, Wall Street Wins
The Tea Party Flourishes, Progressives Flounder, Wall Street Wins
The Looting of America (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 24 November 2009)
The Looting of America (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 24 November 2009)
To Create Jobs on Main Street, We Need to Kill Jobs on Wall Street
"It's time to face up to the essential feature of the Billionaire Bailout Society: It's not a shared society. We're not in it together. What's good for Wall Street is not good for the rest of us. They even get their swine flu shots before we do.
"The billionaire bailout society" - on Russia Today!
“From WWII to the mid-1970s, virtually every year productivity went up in America and the average wage of the average worker went up. The two lines [on a graph] went together, then they split apart. The average American production workers – about a 100 million people – their average wage now has gone down 18% since the mid-1970s, but the people at the top do fantastically well,” revealed Leopold."
http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-05/billionaire-bailout-society.html
Sparking a Populist Revolt Against the Billionaire Bailout Society
"It's just sitting out there.
Talk to your neighbors and you can sense how angry they are about the rich gaining ever more wealth during the Great Recession. They understand that the bailout money -- our tax dollars -- went to the largest financial institutions in the world which had caused the crisis in the first place. They sense that the middle class is getting screwed yet again.
What a teachable moment! But what are we teaching?.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/sparking-a-populist-revol_b_34...
Breaking out of the Billionaire Bailout Society
Democracy, socialism, capitalism, neo-liberalism -- none of them do justice to who we are and where we're headed. Socialism left the planet several decades ago, except in the minds of Fox News pundits. We're not sure what capitalism really is anymore, now that we've bailed out the entire financial sector....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/breaking-out-of-the-billi_b_33...
Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Jobless Recovery
We are entering the billionaire bailout society. For the past thirty years we have minted billionaires, and we have created the most unequal distribution of wealth since 1928-29. This didn't happen by accident. We deliberately deregulated the financial sector and we deliberately eliminated the steep progressive taxes on the...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/why-billionaires-should-p_b_33...
63 New Les Leopold Huffington Posts on financial crises, its origins, consequences, and what to do about it
63 New Les Leopold Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold
Breaking out of the Billionaire Bailout Society
Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Jobless Recovery
Obama's Pay Cuts Let Big Boys off the Hook
Welfare Reform for Wall Street
OMG! Greenspan Goes Populist?
Stop Whining: Wall Street's Record Profits, Pay, Dow 10,000 Are Great News
Break Up Goldman Sachs?
Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. Andrew J. Hall
Barkin' Barney Frank: Where's the Bite?
Why Our Jobs Crisis From Hell Could Last Decades
The Forbes 400 Shows Why Our Nation Is Falling Apart
