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Financial Rescue Plans

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Kristen Chrstian: L.A. Gallery Owner Behind Bank Transfer Day Talks About Her Inspiration to Take Her Cash to a Credit Union

    Courtesy Kristen Christian​She says it has nothing to do with Occupy L.A. and its Occupy Wall Street sister movement. Class warfare? Meh. Yet the timing of L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian's idea couldn't have been better for those fed up with corporate banks that took billions in taxpaye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Rep. Maxine Waters' Ethics Charges Spelled Out

    ​ The House ethics committee spelled out its case against against Rep. Maxine Waters, the legendary congresswoman who represents south L.A., The Washington Post reports. As expected, the case alleges Waters "improperly exerted" influence over Treasury Department officials when she sought ban ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Maxine Waters' Grandson At Heart Of New Ethics Allegations

    Maxine Waters​Rep. Maxine Waters' grandson, Mikael Moore, worked on legislation to help OneUnited Bank, according to new allegations in the House Ethics report issued today.Waters, D-Los Angeles, has been under fire for more than a year for helping to arrange a meeting between OneUnited representa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Rep. Maxine Waters Roundup: Jon Stewart, The New Republic, KCRW

    ​ Rep. Maxine Waters, who faces an ethics trial after arranging a meeting between Treasury Department officials and a bank in which her husband owned a lot of stock, continues to hit back hard against her accusers in the Office of Congressional Ethics. Waters, who represents South L.A., said s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Rep. Maxine Waters To Face Ethics Trial

    ​ Updated with Waters' response. Rep. Maxine Waters, a 10-term Democrat who represents south L.A., will face a House ethics trial this fall. The investigation has centered around Waters setting up a meeting between OneUnited Bank, where her husband had been on the board and still had signific ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Villaraigosa Lofts a Hail Mary at Transit Projects

    ​​Perhaps to remind us that he can attract media attention simply by suggesting pie-in-the-sky ideas, Mayor Villaraigosa yesterday and today made headlines by declaring that he will do in 10 years what everyone says will take 30. That is, he vowed to fast-track several rail projects throughout L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Maxine in Hot Waters Over Bank Conflict

    L.A. Observed's business writer Mark Lacter does a fine job pulling together choice quotes from the Wall Street Journal and N.Y. Times on L.A. Congresswoman Maxine Waters' ties to OneUnited Bank. Until a few years ago she was an investor and her husband was once a director of the Boston-based bank, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2008

    Award Shows Suck

    L.A. Observed's business writer Mark Lacter does a fine job pulling together choice quotes from the Wall Street Journal and N.Y. Times on L.A. Congresswoman Maxine Waters' ties to OneUnited Bank. Until a few years ago she was an investor and her husband was once a director of the Boston-based bank, ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 25, 2008

    Jordan Belfort: The Wounded Wolf of Wall Street

    Still howling

  • Columns

    October 9, 2008

    Banking on Disaster: A Day in the Life at the End of the World

    What do you do when it seems as though you're the last man on Earth with a savings account?

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Election '08: McFarce

    BY MARC COOPER Call me naive or even delusional, but I think we can surmise the political implications of McCain's transparent campaign-suspension gimmick. I'm standing by my view that these past two weeks we have witnessed the implosion of his campaign. The American people take this catastrophic t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Election '08: A Day In The Life At The End Of The World

    My head is spinning and not just because this is the third time I've tried to write this. Unfortunately, as far as clarity and fresh thinking is concerned, my computer kept crashing as I pecked away at these thoughts last night, trying to make some sense of a dizzying day. Maybe my laptop was having ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    The Trickle Down Economics of the Nation's Financial Crisis

    This week, the Los Angeles Business Journal explains how the trickle down economics of the country's financial crisis may hurt LA...as well as some of its wealthiest citizens. Billionaire Eli Broad, who's a major shareholder of American International Group, the insurance company that the federal gov ... More >>

  • News

    September 25, 2008

    Reaganomics Meets the GOP-Bolshevik State

    Potemkin economy

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    6 Highs and Lows of American Automobilia

    Potemkin economy

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    6 Highs and Lows of American Automobilia

    Potemkin economy

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Wrong Power Moves

    Gray Davis rejected plans that could have helped the state overcome its electricity shortage

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