Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson
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  • Published Remembering Chalmers Johnson, A Progressive Voice Of Clarity (Blog entry)
    November 24, 2010 - 1:33pm

    Chalmers Johnson shared with us his brilliant mind.  He also shared with us a rarer gift,  courage.  His clarity and purpose were not coincidence. They were reflections of that courage.   He was owned by no one and calmed near the end of his life by the awareness that he had reached a place where to help mankind he felt he had to be strong and clear and undaunted by criticism.  

  • Published Humanity Amid The Wall Street Sociopaths (Blog entry)
    January 13, 2010 - 4:37pm

    The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings began belatedly this morning. Carrying a structure of decision-making that appears to be designed to make it hard to get things done, Chairman Phil Angelides has a gargantuan task before him.

  • Published Congress' Choice: Real Derivatives Reform Or Another Wall Street Earthquake (Blog entry)
    November 18, 2009 - 1:35pm

    This post is an excerpt of testimony presented to the Senate Agriculture Committee on November 18, 2009 in a hearing on legislation reforming regulation of financial markets. The testimony was presented on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform.

  • Published Opening Night in Chicago: Senator Durbin Denounces Unfairness, Calls for Reform (Blog entry)
    October 26, 2009 - 12:16pm

    "There were times when I thought I couldn't last for long
    But now I think I'm able to carry on
    It's been a long, been a long time coming
    But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will"

         -Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come

  • Published Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hamper Healthcare Reform (Blog entry)
    August 28, 2009 - 9:50am

    We live in an era where the effectiveness of government has been denigrated for more than 30 years. The echo chamber of the right, particularly since the election of Ronald Reagan, has sought to intimidate anyone who let the romantic notion into their head that government can help.

  • Published Wall Street Economics (Blog entry)
    March 6, 2009 - 11:08am
    A parable of Wall Street that captures just how our so-called financial wizards have acted like, well, worse than donkeys.
  • Published Zap The Zombies, Stop The Bleeding (Blog entry)
    March 5, 2009 - 1:13pm

    My conversation with Bill Moyers: Regulators need to get fierce with so-called "zombie banks," restructuring them in order to stop the free-fall of the financial markets.

  • Published William Grieder on Finance and Washington (Blog entry)
    August 4, 2008 - 10:43am

    William Greider's newest piece for the Nation, goes directly and simply to the politics of U.S. financial policy in a crisis. Throughout his career, Bill has bored into and through the questions of how are economy, and political economy operate. He has cast his eagle eye on nearly every aspect of the realm where economics and politics meet.

  • Published Why this crisis is far from finished (Blog entry)
    April 25, 2008 - 12:16pm
    The financial markets are rallying and many leading investment bankers are declaring that the crisis is over. Methinks they do protest to much.
  • Published Why Financial Regulation is Essential (Blog entry)
    April 17, 2008 - 12:34pm

    In a Financial Times article, Martin Wolf illustrates that a man who has alway been pro market can see the problems with no regulation and self policing of markets. Wolf is right that regulation and enforcement are also human activities that can generate their own follies; but the work of the society is to protect people from the excesses of a given segment of society while maintaining the maximum freedom of those within the sector to be creative.