Tag: banks
Is the run on the dollar due to panic or greed?
The banks could not function without public support. They should be turned into public utilities.
Homewreckers: How Wall Street, banks & Trump’s inner circle used the...
We speak with investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his new book “Homewreckers,” which looks at the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis...
Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind...
Individuals from Indonesia and Liberia embroiled in land disputes with oil palm plantations have visited the Netherlands to call on the Dutch...
States can break up big banks. Here’s how.
Big banks are unpopular in both red and blue states; breaking them up could attract support across party lines and prove a winning electoral strategy.
Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.
Bernie Sanders introduces legislation that would break up ‘too big to...
"If these banks were too big to fail 10 years ago, what would happen if any of them were to fail today?"
Breaking with Wall Street: LA puts it to the voters
The numbers are there to support the case for a city-owned bank, but a critical ingredient in effecting revolutionary change is finding the political will.
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
Central banks have gone rogue, putting us all at risk
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.
To stop the next financial crisis, we need public ownership of...
Public ownership of banks is not as crazy as it may sound. It has been the default political response to financial crises around the world for decades.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.