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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.