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Ben Bernanke will probably be confirmed to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the next few days. But opposition to his nomination has emerged on both […]
Today’s interviews with Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Richard Shelby mark the final installment of What Went Wrong?, Big Think’s series on the financial crisis. Over the past few months, we sat […]
Historically speaking, scarves haven’t had a multitude of uses. Other than providing modest covering as a requisite religious dress, they’re primarily used to keep warm and (occasionally) look dapper. But […]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and now the New York Times have publically announced plans to make readers pay for online content, but not everybody is following suit…not yet, anyway. Alan […]
They’d make an odd dinner party: The 12th century polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen; James Doohan (aka Scotty from Star Trek); an American sociologist named James Cooke Brown; J.R.R. Tolkien; […]
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His hope is that by March 2010, a new entity will be charged with looking out for systemic risk in the economy.
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Would Congressman Frank support a piecemeal approach to health care reform? He’s rethinking it all.
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Our blunder came when we killed rental housing programs and tried to help low income people buy homes, says Barney Frank.
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Barney Frank on why he originally opposed tightened regulations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Barney Frank thinks no federal funds can go to keep institutions in business. His bill, already passed by Congress, seeks to make creditors very, very nervous.
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A conversation with the House Financial Services Committee Chairman.
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The recent Massachusetts victory is just the beginning, says Senator Richard Shelby.
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Alabama Senator Richard Shelby argues that a flat tax would transform us into a nation of savers, not spenders.
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Senator Richard Shelby isn’t so sure we’d be able to reinstitute the separation between commercial and investment banks. He is sure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be gone.
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Senator Richard Shelby thinks that the Treasury’s handling of TARP sparked the financial panic.
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A conversation with the Senator of Alabama.
Bob Duggan: I’m not sure what I think about the idea of scientifically determining the creative process as a brain process. If they succeed, would they arrive at a formula for creativity?
Britain is out of recession. It’s official. The UK Treasury today confirmed what the Government had both predicted and hoped for, that the deepest recession since the 1930s is over. […]
If you think a crow is looking at you with malice in its eyes…chances are it is. Wild crows can recognise individual human faces and hold a grudge for years, according to research.
China has accused America of “hypocrisy and initiation of cyberwarfare against Iran” in response to criticism by Hillary Clinton of countries that censor the internet and engage in hacking.