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Why the tough love for Detroit and kid gloves for Wall Street? Wall Street has bought its gentle treatment through a long-term…
Robert Weissman
Robert Weissman is president of Public Citizen and a staunch public interest advocate and activist, as well as an expert on corporate and government accountability. He worked as director of the corporate accountability organization Essential Action from 1995 to 2009. From 1989 to 2009, he was editor of the Multinational Monitor, a magazine that tracked multinational corporations. Weissman helped make HIV drugs available to the developing world and has provided assistance to numerous governments on intellectual property and access to medicine issues. He previously worked as a public interest attorney at the Center for Study of Responsive Law.
What can $5 billion buy in Washington? Quite a lot. Over the 1998-2008 period, the financial sector spent more than $5 billion…
What a year for corporate criminality and malfeasance! As we compiled the Multinational Monitor list of the 10 Worst Corporations of 2008,…
Thank you, George Bush. The federal government is finally acting to protect the auto industry from failure. The $17.4 billion in loans…
South Nashua, N.H. – Across the nation, companies are lopping off hundreds of thousands of jobs, retailers are shuttering stores, and automakers…
With the U.S. government offering trillions of dollars in supports for the financial sector, it is startling to witness the casual way…
Over the past week, Americans — and people around the world — rightfully celebrated the breakthrough election of an African-American to be…
Good morning, America. Hello, world. Yes, the skies over Mordor are now brightening.* There is an almost palpable, physical sense of relief…
It is an extraordinary time. On Friday, the Washington Post ran a front-page story titled, "The End of American Capitalism?" Today, the…
There’s mounting talk on Capitol Hill that a Wall Street bailout will include some limits on executive compensation, as well as contradictory…