Squandering

As Robert Kuttner detailed in his prescient 2007 book The Squandering of America, our financial system has always rested on an extensive set of government interventions.61 The legal environment for financial transactions governs such crucial issues as what constitutes insider dealing or conflicts of interest, how much monitoring and transparency there must be in major financial transactions, and what levels of leverage and risk are acceptable.

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

As Robert Kuttner detailed in his prescient 2007 book The Squandering of America, our financial system has always rested on an extensive set of government interventions.61 The legal environment for financial transactions governs such crucial issues as what constitutes insider dealing or conflicts of interest, how much monitoring and transparency there must be in major financial transactions, and what levels of leverage and risk are acceptable.

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

As Robert Kuttner detailed in his prescient 2007 book The Squandering of America, our financial system has always rested on an extensive set of government interventions.61 The legal environment for financial transactions governs such crucial issues as what constitutes insider dealing or conflicts of interest, how much monitoring and transparency there must be in major financial transactions, and what levels of leverage and risk are acceptable.

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

As I reported in my 2007 book, The Squandering of America, liberals can thank Monica Lewinsky for saving Social Security from that earlier bipartisan deal.

Robert Kuttner: The Stealth Attack on America's Best-Loved Program 2010

As Robert Kuttner detailed in his prescient 2007 book The Squandering of America, our financial system has always rested on an extensive set of government interventions.61 The legal environment for financial transactions governs such crucial issues as what constitutes insider dealing or conflicts of interest, how much monitoring and transparency there must be in major financial transactions, and what levels of leverage and risk are acceptable.

Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

Promoted to Headline (H4) on 5/10/09: Obama's Squandering More Than Capital yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Obama\'s Squandering More Than Capital'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Obama, a little more than a hundred days in office, is making the object of his blame look like a miser.'

Obama's Squandering More Than Capital 2009

From the Multinational Monitor, Robert Kuttner, author of The Squandering of America, responded as follows:

Two Strikes against Obamanomics 2009

Squandering all of your campaign money 7 months before the first vote is pitiful.

Happy Hour Roundup 2009

Squandering Opportunity yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Squandering Opportunity'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: It is \'our time\' but is Obama representing those who brought him into office in a landslide?

Squandering Opportunity 2009

Squandering a unique opportunity to unite the world after 9/11 to address the challenges of the twenty-first century that drive many to engage in terrorism out of despair, he waged a false "war on terror" with religious overtones and without specifically defining "terrorism" and its causes.

Sam Sedaei: Restoring America's Global Image: Strengthen the United Nations 2009