Tag: big banks
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?"
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.
After long career bailing out big banks, Obama Treasury Secretary Tim...
"Your economy, rigged to redistribute wealth to the top."
Why the only answer is to break up the biggest Wall...
Why should banks ever be permitted to use peoples’ bank deposits – insured by the federal government – to place risky bets on the banks’ own behalf?
Meeting the definition of terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big...
The terror inflicted on Americans is real.
Warren calls out her Democratic colleagues who voted to advance a...
Warren said at the gathering of progressive lawmakers that "this isn't a story about economics," rather it's a "story about power."
The $24 million reasons Dems back America’s worst banks
In a world where Republicans have already been bought and paid for, there is no room for Democrats who act in bad faith.
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Ideas from hell: The far right’s weaponized conspiracy theories
Since the end of April, there have been three mass shootings that can be directly tied to white nationalism. The victims of...
Blackwater mercenary sentenced to life in prison
Responsible for firing the first bullet in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison. Last year, Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder...
EPA reverses approval of poison traps used to kill wildlife
Last week, Trump’s EPA had made the decision to reauthorize the use of deadly cyanide traps to kill the wild animals that...
Pennsylvania is discharging radioactive fracking waste into rivers as landfill leachate, impacting the Chesapeake...
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Originally published by Joshua B. Pribanic and Talia Wiener for Public Herald edited by Melissa Troutman
Fighting back: Six states sue the EPA over its approval of pesticide linked to...
“The EPA is egregiously sacrificing our children’s health by refusing to make a determination on this dangerous pesticide.”