Tag: stock market
New 1% stock buyback tax better than nothing, but won’t fix...
Right now, inequality is as predictable as another decade of authoritarian Republican politics—banish the thought.
Forget the badgering of hack politicians. Consumer boycotts & eco-smart investing...
Imagine the convergence when boycotts and selective stock investments boost targeted street actions
The stock market is not the economy
The next time you hear someone say the stock market is a reflection of the economy, tell them that’s rubbish! The real economy is jobs and wages.
Indecent stock market boom exposes riot-inducing inequality, not economic positives
Can enough discredited craziness end up teaching, “Everybody does better when everybody does better"?
On the same day Sen. Richard Burr dumped stock, so did...
The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock. Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
Why stock buybacks must be ended
Buybacks don’t grow the American economy. So why are buybacks so popular with Corporate CEOs?
Forget the Dow Jones. How’s Doug Jones?
The stock market is owned by the rich. It tells you little about how ordinary Americans are doing.
We’re told the Dow Jones average…
But wait – nearly all stock is owned by the richest 10 percent of Americans, so the Dow Jones Average says nothing about the economic condition of the 90 percent majority of Americans.
The Stock Market Is Getting Harder to Rig
The U.S. economy is in sad shape. Yet, corporate media tries to explain the recent stock market decline, which erased $2.1 trillion in the market value of stocks and in the pockets of Americans’ retirement savings, so logically.
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Is Trump so desperate he’d risk getting shot to regain the White House? Without...
How can Trump end up looking like the dumbest, lyingest punk operative who ever escaped from the sneaky Naked City?
Fifth annual assessment of air pollution ranks cities, nations and regions around the world
The study confirmed that only six countries met the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated safe levels of the deadly air pollutant, particulate matter (PM) 2.5.
Cancer patients challenge Biden admin’s refusal to lower price of lifesaving drug
“This is a drug that was invented with taxpayer dollars by scientists at UCLA and can be purchased in Canada for one-fifth the U.S. price."
Message for Merrick Garland and Jack Smith: Stop the vacillating, shift into high gear, and...
The future of America depends on it.
Biden administration unveils nation’s first Ocean Climate Action Plan
“This Ocean Climate Action Plan is the first comprehensive approach that the U.S. has taken to leveraging the power of the ocean in the fight against climate change.”