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• Commission Impossible How the Angelides Commission can crack open the Wall Street scandal—if it dares.
  Eliot Spitzer Oct. 27, 2009
  
• Chamber of Horrors The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it.
  Eliot Spitzer Oct. 14, 2009
  
• Break the Banks Why don't any of the Obama administration's financial reforms help middle-class Americans?
  Eliot Spitzer Oct. 1, 2009
  
• Nine Questions for Ben Bernanke He'd better answer them before the Senate confirms him to another term as Fed chairman.
  Eliot Spitzer Sept. 18, 2009
  
• Let Citizens United Speak! Why the Supreme Court should abolish political speech limits on corporations and unions.
  Eliot Spitzer Sept. 4, 2009
  
• Still a Chump's Game Is the stock market safe again for the small investor? Not by a long shot.
  Eliot Spitzer Aug. 17, 2009
  
• The Wall Street Journal's Fraud Blindness The newpaper's preposterous editorial about AIG and me.
  Eliot Spitzer Aug. 10, 2009
  
• In Sickness and in Wealth How America's rising income inequality figures in to the debate over health care.
  Eliot Spitzer July 28, 2009
  
• State of Fear State governments are in even more trouble than they seem to be. Here's how to save them.
  Eliot Spitzer July 13, 2009
  
• Don't Get Fooled Again The Fed botched banking regulation once already. So why does Obama want to give it more power?
  Eliot Spitzer June 30, 2009
  
• Power Play Obama's new rules are fine, but the feds already have all the authority they need to fix Wall Street.
  Eliot Spitzer June 18, 2009
  
• The Circus Comes to Albany Why the state Senate bedlam will be good for New York.
  Eliot Spitzer June 10, 2009
  
• Green Shoots, Red Ink, Black Hole Truly terrifying data about the real state of the U.S. economy.
  Eliot Spitzer June 3, 2009
  
• How To Fix the New York Fed The nation's second-most powerful financial institution is a mess. These folks might be able to save it.
  Eliot Spitzer May 18, 2009
  
• Fed Dread The New York Fed is the most powerful financial institution you've never heard of. Look who's running it.
  Eliot Spitzer May 6, 2009
  
• Gun Control Without Gun Laws How Obama can use government procurement regulations to limit gun violence.
  Eliot Spitzer April 29, 2009
  
• Judge Posner Wrote What? A leading free-market conservative concludes that CEO compensation practices are flawed.
  Eliot Spitzer April 15, 2009
  
• The Regulatory Charade Washington had the power to regulate misbehaving banks. It just refused to use it.
  Eliot Spitzer April 1, 2009
  
• The Real AIG Scandal, Continued! The transfer of $12.9 billion from AIG to Goldman looks fishier and fishier.
  Eliot Spitzer March 22, 2009
  
• In a State Being a governor has become America's toughest job.
  Eliot Spitzer March 19, 2009
  
• The Real AIG Scandal It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full.
  Eliot Spitzer March 17, 2009
  
• Loan Ranger The way Americans pay for college is a mess. Here's how to fix it.
  Eliot Spitzer March 4, 2009
  
• The $500,000 Limit Is Not Enough Four better ways of fixing the CEO pay debacle.
  Eliot Spitzer Feb. 18, 2009
  
• Privatize Social Security?! Can we finally kill this terrible idea?
  Eliot Spitzer Feb. 4, 2009
  
• America's Fear of Competition How cronyism and rent-seeking replaced "creative destruction."
  Eliot Spitzer Jan. 22, 2009
  
• Robots, Not Roads The Obama stimulus package should be spent on transformative investments, not bridges and buildings.
  Eliot Spitzer Jan. 5, 2009