Tag: big banks
HSBC plans to close Asian coal plants to curb emissions—while also...
Bank accused of greenwashing ahead of COP26 for backing scheme while being world’s 13th biggest funder of fossil fuels
Arrested in rocking chairs, grandparents protest Chase and pressure Biden on...
Tired from trekking 170 miles from Biden’s birthplace to his hometown, a dozen of us grandparents decided to take a stand for climate justice by sitting down.
Banking that serves people, not bankers
The Post Office could offer simple, honest banking, including checking and savings accounts, consumer loans, and low-fee debit cards.
Big banks pull financing, prepare to seize assets from collapsing oil...
The big banks funded the money-losing fracking industry for the past decade just like they funded the housing crisis — but the reality is, just like in the housing crisis, the coming bailouts will protect the banks.
Wells Fargo agrees to pay $3B over massive fraud scandal
“We are hopeful that this $3 billion penalty, along with the personnel and structural changes at the Bank, will ensure that such conduct will not reoccur.”
Goldman Sachs becomes first major American bank to prohibit Arctic oil...
“Goldman Sachs is right to recognize that destroying the Arctic Refuge would be bad business. We hope other American banks will follow their lead.”
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...
Global banks, led by JPMorgan Chase, invested $1.9 trillion in fossil...
“Alarming is an understatement. This report is a red alert.”
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.
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?"
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Democrats remain the bulwark against losing what freedoms remain—like it or not!
If not Democrats, flawed or not, then who defies the menace of reaction, advances America, and even confronts climate change with serious, systemic reforms?
Media ignore criticism of DHS’s new ‘disinformation’ board—unless it’s from the right
The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”
It’s not enough to resist—we have to build, too
So I want you to commit today: Double your efforts in the struggles you are involved in. Join that campaign you’ve been thinking about joining. Show that real solidarity.
Does Flint, Michigan, have clean water yet? The answer is complicated.
Even if the city has clean water, many people still struggle to accept that they’re being told the truth this time.
The US nuked two cities in WWII and has threatened to use them often...
The threats have indeed been made, and they could potentially be more than bluffs.