Tag: economy

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?

It seems vaguely upsetting, but you forget about it 15 seconds later because … what else is there to do?

There’s only one answer: It is time to revive antitrust.

The longer the elites keep us in darkness with their ideological tricks and empty moralism, the longer we refuse to mobilize to break their grip on power, the worse it will get.

“I would encourage readers to do their own research and discover how a public bank can tip the balance towards Main Street, rather than Wall Street, and help their small community banks at the same time.”

Buybacks don’t grow the American economy. So why are buybacks so popular with Corporate CEOs?

Who knows what a mad king will do when no adults remain to supervise him?

Warren said at the gathering of progressive lawmakers that "this isn't a story about economics," rather it's a "story about power."

The stock market is owned by the rich. It tells you little about how ordinary Americans are doing.

Populism – neither right nor left, Republican or Democrat – it is not based on ideology, but on two gut-level fundamentals.