Tag: money

Justin Elliott: Obama’s Flip-Flops on Money in Politics
February 2013Four years, four reversals on dark money.

Paul Kiel: Feds Replace Flawed Foreclosure Review With Vague $8.5 Billion Settlement
January 2013Banking regulators admitted the Independent Foreclosure Review was a big expensive mess and shut it down. But many details about the $8.5 billion settlement that replaces it remain murky.

Stephen Engelberg and Kim Barker: The Flood of Secret Campaign Cash Isn’t All Citizens United
August 2012The campaign is glutted with anonymous money because of loose FEC oversight, and the Commission is unlikely to become more assertive anytime soon.

Robert Reich: Romney’s Lying Machine
August 2012Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, but Romney’s lies are another thing altogether.

Kim Barker: How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare
August 2012Drawing on documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission, here’s your guide to how 501(c)(4) groups have used their tax status for purposes the law never intended.

Peter Maass: Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
August 2012Measuring the cost of cybercrime is trickier than we think.

ProPublica: Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson
July 2012Sheldon Adelson made millions off Macau, then used that money to fund the GOP. Now people are taking a closer look at where that money came from.



On the Fly: Robert Reich
April 2011The former Secretary of Labor on the Great Recession, class warfare, and why President Obama must challenge right-wing distortions with a counter-narrative.

Big Money
September 2010We played Steal the Bacon / and explored our unmentionables /
behind the gazebo

101 Billionaires
March 2010At the beginning of 2008, the list of the richest Russians contained 101 billionaires; a magical number that for the time being will not be matched. These photographs document a very different Russia.


