The Goldman fraud suit continues to dominate the media cycle. After the initial shock of the US government actually doing something to hold Wall Street accountable, the business press —
LittleSis is expanding its investigation into the networks of money and influence behind efforts to gut Social Security. Join the Social Security Looters research group if you want to get
The Washington Post published a poll on the special election in Massachusetts last week, as part of the Washington Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll series. The poll carried obvious implications for the health
Ben Bernanke’s supporters are warning that a Senate vote against the Fed chair will send financial markets tumbling. Tim Geithner recently chimed in by telling Politico that markets would find
MIT healthcare economist Jonathan Gruber has been caught up in a scandal in recent weeks after it was reported that he received large, undisclosed payments from the Obama administration for
Bloomberg reported yesterday that the New York Fed pushed AIG to withhold key information about bonuses and swap counterparties in late 2008. Today, the story is blowing up, with the
Larry Summers continues to refuse comment on his disastrous management of Harvard University’s finances, according to a lengthy Bloomberg article out Friday (aptly titled “Harvard swaps are so toxic even
In a blog post yesterday, Paul Krugman tells his readers that they shouldn’t look at a Rasmussen poll on healthcare reform in Massachusetts because “it’s Rasmussen.” He points to a
A possible candidate for Senator Kennedy’s seat has spent the last ten years building the biggest pharmaceutical lobbying practice in the country. Nick Littlefield is chair of the lobbying group
Still more evidence that Wellpoint wrote the Baucus plan: the insurance company’s lobbying efforts in DC are headed up by Senator Mike Enzi’s former chief health adviser at Senate HELP,
