In these deeply troubling times we need to now face a hard reality and stop worrying about convincing President Obama of anything. We need to convince his bosses, Goldman Sachs and a few others on Wall Street that what’s good for the Republic is good for them. We need to convince them that Warren Buffet [...]

What has happened in Egypt and is happening in other parts of the Middle East is (of course) profoundly important for that region, but it also brings lessons to the so called First World, struggling with it’s reworking of financial structures (both in Europe and in the US). As we watch Obama (who has increasingly [...]

It’s a kind of a strange feeling now to have watched the unfolding of the Goldman Sachs drama in Congress (and the White House), the rising rage in the country towards Goldman Sachs’ blithe multi billion dollar bonuses. It’s been over a year now that I’ve been raging against this company (along with a few [...]

Just a quick thought re Goldman (let them eat cake) Sachs who are very clear that they are innocent of all charges being leveled against them. I have often made films and TV shows in real prisons (sadly). Every warden I have ever spoken to says the same thing: prisoners, nearly to a person, believe [...]

I was having coffee with a friend, who finally opened up and admitted she was in dire financial straits, hadn’t worked in over a year. Her features were equal parts relief and misery for she had spoken to almost no one about this. Yes, she had heard rumblings of others in similar circumstances, of course, [...]

“Haiti’s disaster, on the front of every newspaper, has given Goldman Sachsan unequalled opportunity. A simple act of generosity could bring it front-page publicity, one that would do much to allay the ontroversy on everyone’s lips. By donating just half of their bonuses to Haitian relief,they will outmatch the Haitian GDP, and improve not only [...]

Who could have imagined six months ago that a Republican vowing to stop Health Care in its tracks would become Kennedy’s successor? Do we remember, at Kennedy’s funeral, how everyone spoke of his death being a rallying point for health care? Then came the chaos, brutality and hilarity of all those debates, then the Pharmaceuticals [...]

On Monday the important banking CEOs were to attend a Presidential meeting at which it was billed Obama (getting slammed in the polls for his entanglements with Wall Street) would dress them down for their unrepentant behavior since receiving hundreds of billions of taxpayer’s cash. But the biggest CEOs didn’t show up because of “fog [...]

I ‘ve been wanting to write about a number of things over the past few days, but Thanksgiving swept in and I’m just now beginning to see the light of the day after. First, that this Dubai situation is strange — strange how our core financial situation can be so tied to something on the [...]

Yes! We should celebrate the passing of this Health Care Bill in the House. Yes, this is the way democracy has worked from its start in this country with its Declaration of Independence for white men (not women, not slaves, etc.) – pretty much a mess at the start, a mess in the middle, a [...]