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Frank: Sue the Bastards!

Opening today’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on AIG, Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass) makes a strong case for suing all those executives who got their multi-million dollar bonuses despite their high-risk incompetence that ultimately led the company down the toilet.
Reading from the contracts — which still appear not to be publicly available, though I’m trying [...]


Contracts Go Both Ways – AIG Should Turn Them Over

The federal government’s answer to the furor over AIG’s payments of ridiculous multi-million dollar bonuses to the same executives who helped drive the company into the ground seems to be “we can’t break a contract.”
But what about what the executives promised to do under those employment contracts?  Surely those contracts required managers and executives to [...]


Throw Your Shoes at the ‘Reconstruction’ of Iraq

Since President Bush wants to go out on a “so what” note — he’s really making me regret panning that Oliver Stone movie — let’s make today an official Shoe Throwing Day here at The Streak. On Saturday, ProPublica and The New York Times previewed a forthcoming official history of the alleged reconstruction of Iraq [...]


Taking on Military Contract Reform

PART 2: Despite Congress’ attempts to curb spending on wasteful military integration contracts, problems continue.


McCain and the Aircraft Lobby

A labor strike at Boeing is the latest twist in a seven-year story of corruption and conflicting interests.