U.S. Federal Reserve

Fed Pursuit of Hacktivist Aaron Swartz vs. Pursuit of Big Banks Highlights Tragic Imbalance

The theft of a few million articles from academic journals can carry a sentence of 35 years in prison. Meanwhile, big banks can rig interest rates affecting the entire global economic system, launder money for international drug cartels, illegally foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, an ... More >>

American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness

Wendy Long: What Does The GOP Senate Candidate Want To Do With Banks?

Wendy Long, the Republican Senate candidate who has quite a few ideas for your vagina, also has some ideas for banks. Writing about financial reform in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, "A Smarter Approach to New York's Banks," she takes on political rival Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's "punitive" view on f ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Sean Fieler

With Mitt Romney as its de facto candidate, the roster of Restore Our Future, Romney's designated Super PAC slush fund, reads like a laundry list of New York City's wealthiest denizens. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and contrary to popular belief, Super PAC ... More >>

Presidential Campaign Stores: Who's Got the Best Crap?

With the New Hampshire primary less than two months away, candidates are taking to the airwaves with commercials and televised debates to get their messages out. They have been honing their talking points and refining their images to make you, the voter, comfortable enough to buy what they're sellin ... More >>

Top 10 Reasons Why So Few Black Folk Appear Down To Occupy Wall Street

Kristen Christian, Who Created 'Bank Transfer Day,' the November 5 Bank Boycott, Tells Us Why

Earlier today we wrote of what appeared to be an Occupy Wall Street-related bank boycott planned for November 5th. We've spoken to Kristen Christian, the 27-year-old creator of the event, who has clarified some things. For one, it's not an Occupy Wall Street-organized event, though members of the Oc ... More >>

Rick Perry's Texas Fantasyland

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-makin', low-taxin' oasis of economic growth. It's also a fantasy.

Ground Zero Tolerance

With no politician willing to take charge, the 9/11 recovery has dragged on far too long

Ron Paul Selling House Through Super Professional-Looking Website

​As has been reported, Ron Paul's house is for sale. To buy Ron Paul's house, you need $325,000 in gold. There is now a snazzy new website explaining and advertising the property: "A great house and a great piece of history. Dr. Paul's house is for sale in Lake Jackson, TX. The house has 4 bed ... More >>

Rightbloggers Say They'll Change The Constitution to Fix Problems You Never Knew You Had

Two years ago, conservatives were on the ropes. But the GOP victories in last month's elections have them dreaming big again. They're back to talking about destroying the Democrats once and for all. Even Newt Gingrich is talking about running for President in 2012, which shows how general the optimi ... More >>

Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine O'Donnell, Says Friend (Updated)

​Remember that time earlier this afternoon Gawker took some guy's sleazy story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O'Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off?

Wall Street Bails Out the Bad Guys

Eliot Spitzer's Interview at the 92Y: The Full Report

​Eliot Spitzer's talk with CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield was last night at the 92nd Street Y, and it started with Greenfield noting that Spitzer only agreed to talk "without conditions." Needless to say, this had serious potential for all parties involved, especially the audience. And Spitz ... More >>

Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked

Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and Treachery​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>

People's Champion? Rick Lazio Is a Wall Street Creature

His fingerprints are all over the recent economic collapse

At Least 2 Shot at D.C. Holocaust Museum; Anti-Semitic Web Author Accused

At least two people have been shot at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. -- one a museum guard, the other the shooter himself. Other reports say three people were injured, though it's not clear whether the third was hit by gunfire or debris. Some reports identify the shooter as James Van Br ... More >>

Sundwall to Join NY-20 "Round Table," Turn It Into a Debate

Scott Murphy and Jim Tedisco, respectively the Democratic and Republican contenders for Kirsten Gillibrand's vacant House seat in a race to be decided March 31, have had a few debates already. There's another one scheduled for tomorrow on WMHT-TV, but Tedisco has declined to appear. Organizers were ... More >>

Rightbloggers Say: Go Galt! We'll Catch Up With You Later!

President Obama has proposed ending the Bush tax cuts in 2011, bringing the top rates from 33 percent to 36 percent and from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. The lower of these hikes would apply to individuals making over $200,000 and households making over $250,000. This is not really news, as Obama ... More >>

The economy needs steroids, but Alex Rodriguez confesses he took 'em

The Congo War: a report by Al Jazeera from this past November. The deadliest war since World War II — the slaughter in the Congo — drags on and on amid relatively little notice. Arabs and Jews are still killing each other, and Israel's about to elect an even harder-line government. ... More >>

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

'Shoe intifada' vowed; we quake in our boots

Free Will Astrology: December 3 through 9

Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

Henry Paulson ends bailouts, saying, 'Mission accomplished!'

Greenspan deregulated!

Department of Eagles' In Ear Park: One Local Record To Be Excited About That's Not Dear Science

Daily Flog: Deep inside AIG -- the profits of doom

State's Subprime Bill Leaves Borrowers Bamboozled, Broke

Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie

How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis

Who's Wall Street's Candidate in the Presidential Race?

People of money love a frontrunner

The Obama Agenda

Crowds love the candidate, but can he run a presidency on hope?

Project Pat and Z-Ro: The Unsung Heroes of Southern Rap

Horoscope

When Chloe Met Charlotte

MIICRNYCOAGNWMA? The attack of the female campus sex columnist!

Sports

Nation

Phil Gramm’s Enron Favor

Watchdog: Senator Pushed End to Oversight for Campaign Contributor

Nation

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load

The Body Impolitic

Jesse goes To The Mat

Virtual Bill

Assault Charges Hit President, Right Revives

Nation

''I didn't— I swear I didn't— get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests. . . .''
—Texas Governor George W. Bush

Keep Your Eye on Malik Shabazz

'Khallid Muhammad Makes the Jews Pee in Their Pants at Night'

Paranoia Runs Deep

Conspiracy theories have seeped into the heart of the American public