Instead of states and localities being helped by the federal government, they are being scammed and defrauded by the financial industry with an exotic instrument: interest rate swaps that make big bucks for the banks and bankrupt everyone else.

A dismal situation: What happens when the poor get poorer?

No surprise....GOP health care plan (what an oxymoronic phrase) worse that you think.

Another GOP hypocrite, Mitt Romney, and the myth of his jobs creation as MA guv.

The International Olympic Committee—that sewing circle of monarchists, extortionists, and absolved fascists—likes to hide behind the pretense of nobility...in the hands of the IOC, the Olympics are a fraud.

Obama administration on Consumer Financial Protection Agency: one step forward, two steps back.  BTW, why hasn't Geithner been fired yet?