ICT magazine

As I pointed out in November:A report by University of California, Berkeley economics professor Emmanuel Saez concludes that income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression.The repo...

PHISH 3D IN THEATRES APRIL 2010 Phish Phish 3D, filmed at Festival 8 (JamBase coverage of Festival 8 here) - the band's three-day festival which took place on October 30, 31 and November 1 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California - will ...

Tim Geithner claims:We saved the economy but kind of lost the public doing it.Simon Johnson wrote: a more accurate essay entitled:They Saved The Big Banks But Kind Of Lost The Economy Doing It.My take on it is pretty straightforward:We can save the eco...

The Arizona Republic reports: Sen. John McCain of Arizona ... says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the ...

On November 18th, I suggested that everyone:Move your money from one of the companies that are treating the American Citizen like we work for them and who are holding the economy hostage to a company which has not been bailed out by us, and is not taki...

Call or write your Congressional and Senate representatives and tell them that you're joining the following people in demanding that all of AIG's emails to be made public, so that we can gain insight into what really caused the financial crisis:William...

I received this by email. WASHINGTON, DC – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development, issued the following statement on his intention to vote against Ben Bernanke’s nomination to a ...

1942: Nearly a year after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States fully into World War II, the Americans get around to imposing nationwide gasoline rationing. A fuel shortage was not the problem. America had plenty of that. What it lacked was rubber. Both the Army and ...

Obama is planning to "shame" the big banks who are not agreeing to modify mortgages.This is a repeat of Bernanke's play book ... scold the giant banks for failing to lend, but then give them a pat on the back and a wink.As Robert Reich points out:Shame...

There is a conversation happening online.  More than any other marketing method in the course of history, small business has the upper hand in the arena of social networking over big corporations. The intimate atmosphere that naturally occurs in social networking creates abundant opportunity to influence untapped markets.  The fact is ...

Are the American people finally starting to stand up to Wall Street?Shareholder RevoltSome of Goldman Sach's biggest shareholders are demanding that executive compensation be reduced. As the Wall Street Journal notes:Their complaints in private conver...

Congressman DeFazio said yesterday:We think it is time, maybe, that we turn our focus to Main Street ... Unfortunately, the President has an adviser from Wall Street, Larry Summers, and a Treasury Secretary from Wall Street, Timmy Geithner, who don't ...

Beck, Wilco & Feist Do Skip Spence's Oar As part of Beck's Record Club project, Wilco, Feist and others joined forces to work on Skip Spence's Oar. Check out the video and what Beck had to say on his website for more: We're 5 months into the Record ...

Phish Festival 8 Coverage On JamBase Live Reviews, Photo Galleries and Up-To-The-Minute Setlists & Live Tweets Phish is getting ready for Festival 8 in Indio, California and JamBase is already on the scene! Embedded in the desert (okay, ...

Phish Festival 8: Band To Play Last Record Alive Phish's Festival 8 site has released a list of 99 albums of which the band will pick one to play on Halloween. Several albums have already been "killed off" and a note ...

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC today announced that Rand Realty – one of the Top 100 real estate brokerage firms in the nation – has signed a long-term franchise agreement and will now operate under the name Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Rand Realty. Headquartered in New ...

Well, we may think we've lost our jobs, our health insurance, our retirement plans, or our houses. But we haven't really "lost" those, because they were never really ours

Stock prices have been on a tear lately, bolstered by quarterly earnings reports that have in many cases outpaced expectations and growing optimism that the...

The Working Families Party has a ticket one can be proud of, starting with Bill Thompson.

In this recession, it is unnerving how little attention has been devoted to how American manufacturing firms have been affected.