Essay: The Faces of the Financial Crisis

[garyowen4ever]

anyone notiice that these bankstersLOOK LIKE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS....PAULSON, THAIN, GEITHNER, GREENSPAN, FULD, HORMATS,,,ALLsub HUMAN FREAKS OF the unNATURAL.

[SunnyI373]

umm.. you show John Thain (CEO of Merrill Lynch) as a supposed "culprit" for this crisis... hate to break it to you but john thain became CEO in November07 cleaning up the mess the previous ceo made..so perhaps you should do some actual due diligence before foolishly oversimplifying an extremely complicated problem

[papakilatube]

Excellent work. Actual journalism.

[Eskimo407]

we,re srewed...

[goolden1]

I thought there is accountability in the US of A!!!

apparently NOT!

losers: employee, civilians

gainers: CEO  LOL , Interesting democracy in the good old US of A

[Marly61]

For the better part of three decades, our country has been stuck on a single, simplistic idea about the economy: less government equals more prosperity. American leaders have sought to create a marketplace unfettered by rules and regulations. Let people fend for themselves, they said, and innovation and entrepreneurship will flourish, the economy will grow as never before, and the benefits will eventually lift the fortunes of all.

[Marly61]

That was the promise. We have seen — and lived — the reality. From 1989 to 2006, the highest-earning ten percent of U.S. households collected over 90 percent of the nation's income gains. Today the top 1 percent of American families receives 23 percent of all personal income, up from just 10 percent in 1979. Corporate executives earn 275 times as much as average workers, compared with 27 times in 1973.

[robwe359]

Are you Americans happy with the stability of your free and uncontrolled markets? You still believe that progressive tax is communism right? Just like taking care of the sick and the poor is communism? I am just so glad I live in socialistic and democratic Sweden these days!

[Marly61]

Americans wake up, the Elite Americans view themselves as being in a classwar using average people to maximize the transfer of wealth to themselves.

When are average americans going to see the unfolding of US social dynamics as CLASS WARFARE also?

[torray99]

Congress should freeze all the assets of these scum bag CEO's, then they should be killed. That is what they would do in China to them.

[jagib2]

deja-vu, the ceo's always seem to be leaving out with hundreds of millions at every financial collapse. and the stockholders & employees are left holding an empty bag. are we all missing something here? and how can we go to the govt. for help? bush & chaney have already cleaned out the treasury with their oil wars. looks like there needs to be another tea party.

[jpr12345678]

dumb ass ceo's suck shit to them

[RedTigerBlood]

I sincerely hope we are able to the get trains back on track and going.

[4maelstrom]

Why do humans let themselves be treated this way

[MicEntity]

lol yeah right & do one on the 500 trillion rothschild family!

[BlueEagle8]

You missed the biggest criminal of all David Rockefeller and the rest of the owners of the privately held Federal Reserve Bank. Do a piece on him. I dare you.