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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 2

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Part II of the PBS special documentary about money, power and politics in the United States. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of […]

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Wall Street: The Intersection of Money and Power in the American Empire, Part 1

Watch Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Politics, money, and power are three concepts typically associated together, particularly with regard to the American political system. Often cited by critics as one of the main democratic deficiencies of the American political system, the convenient marriage of money and power […]

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MF Global Goes Bust on Euro Debt Bets.

The holding company MF Global, run by former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs co-chairman Jon Corzine, has gone bust following bad bets on European sovereign debt. Discussions over the weekend were held to attempt to sell the firm to avert failure but these did not prove fruitful and the firm’s trading with the New […]

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