Bank nationalization may not be the policy preference of Democrats and Republicans alike, but it may well be the last resort of both parties, as more and more analysts say nationalization is no longer ...

This column was written by The Editors of the New Republic. In the brief weeks that Barack Obama has been president, the n-word has been heard with startling frequency in Washington. We're talking ...

Like Kevin Drum, I think that as the “nationalize now” meme has taken hold in the blogosphere, people are talking about nationalization “awfully casually.” One way this manifests itself is in the ...

A Newsweek poll released over the weekend suggests that Americans may be more amendable than previously believed to the idea of a government takeover of major banks. The specific question posed by the ...

Tyler Cowen makes the important point that when it comes to nationalization, nationalizing one bank isn’t the problem. The problem is that once you nationalize, or even start talking seriously about ...

This post was written by Sarah Dutton and Jennifer De Pinto. There has been talk recently about the possibility of nationalizing ailing U.S. banks, especially as the government's ownership stake rises ...

Matt Yglesias puts forward some of the current arguments for nationalizing insolvent banks; Paul Krugman and Felix Salmon are pushing a similar approach. Maybe, but I'm not yet convinced. It's easy ...

Patrice Motsepe works so hard to preserve his mystique that you’d be forgiven for thinking South Africa’s first black billionaire is a rather reticent man. He is anything but. An enigma perhaps, but ...

Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proposed a slew of measures to rein in corporate power, the centerpiece of which was ensuring that 40 percent of corporate boards be comprised of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Talk of "nationalizing the banks" is in the air again this week, as ...

The expropriation of private assets in Argentina and Bolivia are a stark reminder of the risk of doing business in developing markets. Nationalization of the political sort—as opposed to pragmatism ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...