This column was written by The Editors of the New Republic. In the brief weeks that Barack Obama has been president, the n-word has been heard with startling frequency in Washington. We're talking ...

Bill Moyers had our boy David Sirota on his show Friday, along with Thomas Frank (historian and new Wall Street Journal columnist), and the three dove into the $700 bailout passed last fall and its ...

Iraq's Embassy in Russia clarifies that West Qurna 2 management has moved to Basra Oil Company due to Lukoil's US sanctions, ...

Tyler Cowen makes the important point that when it comes to nationalization, nationalizing one bank isn’t the problem. The problem is that once you nationalize, or even start talking seriously about ...

Felix Salmon, who has been banging the drums for the U.S. government to start nationalizing banks, cites a piece by the economist William Buiter as supporting the argument that the U.S. should ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...

A group of Russian business owners reportedly spoke with President Vladimir Putin this week about their fear of nationalization in the country. Representatives of some of Russia's largest businesses ...

Talk of "nationalizing the banks" is in the air again this week, as President Obama hits the road to sell his recovery plan and Tim Geithner, the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

In our open society, there are few words that people dare not speak. One such word in conversations about financial policy, however, is “nationalization,” meaning government ownership of large banks ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I’ve already made my semi-defense of Tim Geithner’s toxic waste buyup plan, and I won ...

DURING the Great War, the force of circumstances led the belligerent states to intervene directly in industry, in order to safeguard the production of essential supplies for war purposes. In some ...