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Public response to hacking of Democratic National Committee (DNC) E Mails and Russian involvement
07/29/2016
Grouped Articles
'Deeply Troubling': Ex-Ambassador, Intelligence Officials Blast Trump Russia Comments
NBC News 07/28/2016
Why the US fears Russia is hacking its presidential election - BBC News
BBC News 10/11/2016
The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video
The Washington Post
Senate and House Leaders Call for Inquiry of Russian Hacking in Election
The New York Times 12/12/2016
C.I.A. Judgment on Russia Built on Swell of Evidence
The New York Times 12/12/2016
Russian Hackers and American Hacks
WSJ 12/11/2016
Andy Grove and the scaling up at home that American companies need to do.
05/29/2010
Andy Grove brushes off talk of sending technologies and jobs much needed at home to China, with the talk he hears of "a China strategy." He doesn't see how an America with high paying jobs and mass of unemployed could work. He says American companies have failed to scale up, the way Intel did in the seventies. For every Apple employee there are 10 employees in China working on Mac's, Iphones, and Ipads. The idea of manufacturing as not important is misguided and he would like to see America rebuild its industrial base.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Apple Says App Store Sales Rose 50% in 2014
Wall Street Journal 01/09/2015
After Michigan Loss, Hillary Clinton Sharpens Message on Jobs and Trade
New York Times 03/09/2016
Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs
BusinessWeek 07/01/2010
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
Simon Johnson and other experts on the capital shortfall and banking crisis in the U.S.
04/15/2010
Johnson points to irreversible damage from the lack of aggressive action with the large banks from the Obama administration. Johnson pointed to the problems with too big to fail banks. now he and Peter Boone give a lucid explanation on the big picture facing America in relation to the task of aggressive action to resolve the banking problem.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Jamie Dimon: Americaâs Least-Hated Banker
New York Times 12/01/2010
After the reforms: Safer, but not yet safe enough
Economist 05/21/2011
The European Union plans for aid to Greece.
02/10/2010
Resistance in Germany to bailing out Greece.
Grouped Articles
Germany Clears Rescue for Greece
New York Times 05/03/2010
Athens's Love Affair With the Euro Persists
Wall Street Journal 11/04/2013
Germany, Forced to Buoy Greece, Rues Euro Shift
New York Times 02/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 02/12/2010
Wall Street Journal 02/11/2010
Berlin's Wall Around Greek Ruins?
Wall Street Journal 02/10/2010
Larry Kotlikoff and other economists who support strong action to strip banks of risk-taking activities.
02/04/2010
Among those who support such moves are Simon Johnson at MIT, Robert Lucas at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia. Most recently Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia and an advisor to President George W. Bush compares the action needed to breakup "too-big-to-fail" banks to the action taken by Theodore Roosevelt, see the link to Hubbard.
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
How Larry Kotlikoff Would Fix the Financial System
BusinessWeek 02/04/2010
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Ireland Crisis Might Give China Break It Seeks
Unknown 11/19/2010
The U.S. federal mortgage loan modification program in 2010.
06/12/2009
The dim prospects for mortgage loan modification programs of the Obama administration. Two out of three loan modifications under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) program expected to fail, and the failure under HAMP to move quickly by dealing directly with homeowners.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
High Default Rate Seen for Modified Mortgages
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2010
New York Times 08/21/2010
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/2010
State Attorneys General Take Helm in Mortgage Mess
New York Times 10/29/2010
Countrywide, its founder Angelo Mozilo, and Bank of America
01/05/2009
Countrywide is now a unit of Bank of America. Countrywide became known for questionable practices in the mortgage lending business. Countrywide turns out to be a failed and dangerous acquisition for Bank of America.
Grouped Articles
BofA's Blunder: $40 Billion-Plus
Wall Street Journal 06/29/2012
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Court Weighs Penalty in Bank of America 'Hustle' Case
Wall Street Journal 12/06/2013
Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Settles Fraud Case for $67.5 Million
New York Times 10/15/2010
Bank of America to Pay $6.3 Billion To Settle Mortgage Securities Suit
New York Times 03/26/2014
BofA Deal With U.S. Is Hung Up Over Penalties Tied to Countrywide, Merrill
Wall Street Journal 07/29/2014
FDIC investigations of failed banks
11/17/2010
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 11/17/10
Hard Call for FDIC: When to Shut Bank
Wall Street Journal 12/28/10
The failure of the Obama administration to respond adequately to the BP Oil Spill in Gulf waters.
05/27/2010
Slow, indecisive action by government agencies and relying too much on a failed BP approach.
Grouped Articles
Obama and the Dreaded Katrina Comparison
BusinessWeek 05/27/10
In Gulf, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Rig
New York Times 06/05/10
A Disaster Reaches Beyond the Gulf Coast
New York Times 06/04/10
Another Torrent BP Works to Stem: Its C.E.O.
New York Times 06/03/10
Obama and BP at Risk Over Oil Spill
BusinessWeek 06/03/10
Charlie Rose Talks to Vice-President Joe Biden
BusinessWeek 06/03/10
Failure of the N.H.T.S.A. in the Toyota unintended acceleration and braking failure complaints.
02/10/2010
The NHTSA failed to take any action against Toyota when the company stalled for years in providing information from Japan to NHTSA investigators. Safety complaints were left unanswered, and investigations incomplete, and no effort was made to require Toyota to provide answers from Japan where quality matters are centralized. It took Toyota a long time to make the recalls and acknowledge the truth of complaints.
Grouped Articles
Detroit News 03/01/10
Toyota Nears $1 Billion Deal to End Probe
Wall Street Journal 02/08/14
Obama Names Fatigue Specialist to Lead Traffic Safety Agency
New York Times 11/19/14
Federal Auditor Finds Broad Failures at N.H.T.S.A.
New York Times 06/19/15
Safety Agency Scrutinized as Toyota Recall Grows
New York Times 02/10/10
Regulators Hired by Toyota Helped Halt Investigations (Update3)
BusinessWeek 02/12/10
The failed parts in the Toyota recall.
02/09/2010
Grouped Articles
Pedal Maker Says It's Not to Blame
Wall Street Journal 02/09/10
The state attorneys general in the U.S. and the subprime lending and foreclosure crises and mortgage settlements.
12/08/2009
Federal regulators and the Bush and Obama administrations failed miserably to help homeowners achieve loan modifications. This with the false belief that putting homeowners out of their homes would actually speed up a recovery, considering the huge scale of foreclosures in the USA , the high unemployment and other problems hitting the economy. Feldstein's consistent arguments for homeowner relief throughout 2008 and 2009- considering the large number of homeowners under water- as the mortgage crisis unfolded, were ignored by the Bush and Obama administrations. See the comparisons to Japan's lost decade, as the lack of recovery in housing adds to problems with job losses. The lawsuits, legal action and mortgage settlements facing banks as they make their way through the mortgage mess.
Grouped Articles
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Wall Street Journal 12/31/13
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/10
Banks Keep their Mortgage Litigation Reserves a Secret
New York Times 01/16/14
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/14
BP’s Cuts May Wound Portfolio Recovery
Wall Street Journal 02/04/15
India- lack of transparency and fairness in auctions of telecommunications bandwidths.
04/10/2009
2008 auctions were rigged according to the Auditor-General's report. The loss to the governmet of $38 billion. The department of Telecommunications is described as failing miserably to do the due diligence. Adds to the general sense of corruption in the handling of governmental affairs.
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
China Slips in Corruption Perceptions Report
New York Times 12/02/14
Upstart Party Scores Victory in India State Elections
Wall Street Journal 02/11/15
India Auction for Cellphone Spectrum Was Rigged, Report Says
New York Times 11/16/10
The Failure of Infrastructure Building under the Obama administration.
10/21/2008
Only a small portion- about one fifth according to one estimate- of the $787 Stimulus Bill was actually allocated for infrastructure building. And in some cases such as high speed rail only $8 billion was allocated, clearly insufficient to build a high speed rail system in te USA. And public perception is that infrastructure allocation has already taken place, so it has ceased to be a priority even though the nation's infrastructure needs rebuilding.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/06/11
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/13
Obama's Infrastructure Plan: More Cash Could Hit the Road
BusinessWeek 09/08/10
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/10
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/10
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/11
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