1. GAO's Final Energy Task Force Report Reveals Cheney Lied to Congress John Dean writes: "This month, the General Accounting Office (GAO) - the investigative...
The Rewards of Regulation Public cynicism about Wall Street can only be increased by the disclosure of the prodigious compensation of the New York Stock...
Deficit? What Deficit? President Bush's mix of detaxation and deficit spending is rolling trillions of dollars in debt over to the uncertain future. ...
Another Friday Outrage By PAUL KRUGMAN In another demonstration of how electricity deregulation has gone wrong, the energy companies accused of manipulating...
__War Criminals Hire War Criminals to Hunt Down War Criminals Chris Floyd writes: "Yes, the sahibs in Bush's Iraqi Raj are now doling out U.S. tax dollars to...
Two friends in Eastern Europe are talking a few years after the fall of Soviet Communism: Friend # 1: "Everything our former leaders said about Communism was ...
__Bush and the Neocon Termites are Destroying the US Government from Inside and Out Rob Kall writes: "Our government is being corrupted. Our resources are...
Beware of any fix that says says that pension liabilities should be valued by using outside fixed income rates. It is a trap laid by the life insurance...
Emergency Rooms Get Eased Rules on Patient Care By ROBERT PEAR The administration is relaxing rules that say hospitals have to treat people who need emergency...
The buck stops there, and there, and there and there and over there. Where is Harry when you need him? Utilities Point Their Fingers at Each Other Over...
I'm starting to like the new head of the SEC. S.E.C. Head Asks for Details of Big Board Chief's Payout By LANDON THOMAS Jr. The Securities and Exchange...
Good for AT&T. Now let's go after Bernie Ebbers and above all, the key politician who got money from him and who supported him, Senator Lott. AT&T Suit Says...
September 3, 2003 Empire of Novices By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON The Bush foreign policy team always had contempt for Bill Clinton's herky-jerky, improvised...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles /A32695-2003Sep5.html?referrer=emailarticle ... Facing a rebellion in their ranks, House Republican leaders and...
The Daily Briefing: September 4 Call it a "double-dip" of bad news, or even a "two front" blunder, but the bottom line is that, at home and abroad, the Bush ...
Warning of Pension-Plan Shortfall Raises Pressure for Financial Fix By JOHN D. MCKINNON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The government agency that...
S.E.C. to Put Mutual Funds Under Scrutiny on Late Trading By LANDON THOMAS Jr. The main regulator of mutual funds, the S.E.C., is now investigating practices...
Mutual Fund Misdeeds The S.E.C. has once again been caught napping as New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer reveals that some mutual funds have been making...
Excerpt: "Tonight will be a stomach-churning moment for Mr. Bush, and he must be puzzling over how he got snarled in this nightmare, with Old Europe making him...
Got a spare 10 grand you don't need? *** Bush Seeks $87 Billion and U.N. Aid for War Effort By ELISABETH BUMILLER President Bush said that he would ask...
A good example of a misleading headline and of a statistic. The reason so many older people are working is that they can't afford to retire, when their 401(k)s...
I'm not sure that this is a problem. Who in the private sector would get both. In the private sector, diability ends when you collect your pension. The public...
Any one is entitled to as many pensions as they earn! If you re a veteren who goes to work for the post office and then works for a school or seomthing...than...
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/ modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&re q=viewarticle&artid=156 ... These are front-line, career soldiers who...
Now for the hard part--fixing this mess. *** House Moves to Prevent Proposed Pension Rules By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL...
Originally in 1974 it was phony actuaries--ASPA people who screwed the system, with their micro-DB pension plands that were really huge tax shelters. They were...
The way the game in Washington is played these days... It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But maybe, just maybe, at long last, it is...
Tsy: Referred IBM Pension Issue To Tsy Inspector General By DEBORAH LAGOMARSINO and ROB WELLS Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has...