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Why Wall Street’s rule-breaking is everyone’s problem

This is not just a U.S. problem. Regulators agree to minimum standards for banking rules at an international level because finance is a global business.

‘Turning a blind eye’: Elizabeth Warren blasts Federal Reserve for letting...

A JPMorgan whistleblower said the world’s biggest bank was misreporting its trading activity, which could have inflated its earnings by billions of dollars and added millions to executive pay packages.

Ellen Brown: How to escape the federal debt trap

Raising taxes and trimming the budget can slow future growth of the debt, but they are unable to fix the underlying problem.

Is Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve playing politics?

As the Federal Reserve continues to maintain historically high interest rates, accusations mount that political motives may be at play, potentially swaying the upcoming 2024 election.

Democrats urge immediate rate cuts to combat housing crisis exacerbated by...

Democrats in Congress are urging the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates immediately, warning that the central bank's restrictive monetary policy is worsening the nation's housing crisis and threatening to derail a strong streak of job growth.

Trump allies draft plans to seize control over Federal Reserve amid...

Emerging reports reveal a secretive push by Trump supporters to curtail the Federal Reserve's autonomy, threatening the independence of U.S. monetary policy.

Federal Reserve wants climate risk analysis from 6 largest US banks

The Federal Reserve called the review a “pilot exercise” to make sure the U.S. financial system is ready for the various risks presented by the climate crisis.

Fed hikes interest rate despite recession warnings from experts

Economists warned that increasing interest rates too quickly was "a very dangerous approach," could make inflation worse and cause "great pain" without addressing real economic issues.

‘Finally’: In potential nod to Biden win, federal reserve applies to...

The move came after the Fed, for the first time, formally acknowledged the threat climate change poses to the global financial system.

‘Lining up at the trough’: Federal Reserve to offer corporations $500...

"Big corporations have shown time and again that they will put their shareholders and executives ahead of their workers if given the choice."

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Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip

As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.

The country Trump seems dead set on imitating

The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”

Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study

The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.