Tag: big banks
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?"
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."
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Trump’s second term delivers massive gains for billionaires as working Americans face cuts and...
New data and polling show wealth surging at the top under Donald Trump while healthcare, food assistance, and affordability erode for millions.
What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.
Ending republican control will require overcoming the democratic leadership
The last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump’s party is bent on methodically inflicting vast cruelty and injustice while aiming to crush what’s left of democracy and the rule of law.
How much ego-serving cataclysm must MAGA Trumpism wreak—before fierce adversaries resist?
Looking older, bedraggled and more deranged, Trump is running out of laws, rules, thresholds, institutions, alliances and Congressionally-mandated programs to burn down.
World to exceed 1.5°C heating threshold, extreme urgency for fossil fuel phaseout in new...
Current emissions trajectories mean the remaining "carbon budget" for a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5°C will likely be depleted by 2030.