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• Two Crises Wasted Washington's perverse refusal to grapple with the energy crisis or to genuinely reform Wall Street.
  Eliot Spitzer July 27, 2010
  
• Regulators and Risk-Takers Didn't Big Pharma or the FDA learn anything from the Gulf oil spill or the Wall Street meltdown?
  Eliot Spitzer July 14, 2010
  
• The ABCs of Reform How Washington blew its chance to bring real change to Wall Street.
  Eliot Spitzer July 1, 2010
  
• The Incentives Catastrophe The same policy mistake caused both the Wall Street meltdown and the BP spill.
  Eliot Spitzer June 23, 2010
  
• Stop Playing Defense, Obama How the president can stop the spreading plume of national despair.
  Eliot Spitzer June 14, 2010
  
• Read the Gettysburg Address Americans have lost their commitment to shared sacrifice. Lincoln's speech can help them recover it.
  Eliot Spitzer June 4, 2010
  
• Democrats Can Win in November How Tuesday's election results should encourage them.
  Eliot Spitzer May 21, 2010
  
• Keeping the Fed Honest Why is the Federal Reserve so afraid of openness and accountability?
  Eliot Spitzer May 6, 2010
  
• Two Disgraceful Failures How Congress and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission are botching their only chance to reform Wall Street.
  Eliot Spitzer April 13, 2010
  
• The Pushover Obama's choice to lead the SEC, Mary Schapiro, has some explaining to do.
  Eliot Spitzer March 31, 2010
  
• Without Merit Even as politics, the states' lawsuit against health care reform makes no sense.
  Eliot Spitzer March 30, 2010
  
• Seize Power, Shareholders More regulation won't fix Wall Street, but a shareholder revolution will.
  Eliot Spitzer March 16, 2010
  
• Tax Fraud Debunking the claim that higher income-tax rates reduce GDP.
  Eliot Spitzer Feb. 23, 2010
  
• Apostles of Nihilism Republicans are winning the war of political rhetoric. Here's how the president needs to fight back.
  Eliot Spitzer Feb. 8, 2010
  
• Don't Waste the Crisis! Six strategies that could save Obama's ambitious reform agenda.
  Eliot Spitzer Jan. 25, 2010
  
• We Own You! How technology can help stockholders take control of the corporations they own.
  Eliot Spitzer Jan. 12, 2010