Tag: Wall Street
Don’t let Wall Street gamble with your golden years
In the private equity casino, Wall Street never risks its own chips. They rake in the pot while you’re left holding the losses.
Bank CEOs rake in millions as fossil fuel financing jumps $162...
Banks boosted fossil fuel financing by billions in 2024, CEO pay soared, and climate commitments collapsed while frontline communities faced devastating consequences.
GOP lawmaker cashed out health investments while backing Trump’s $1 trillion...
Rep. Rob Bresnahan pledged to end congressional stock trading but has become one of the most active traders in Washington, selling healthcare assets as he voted to slash Medicaid and threaten Pennsylvania’s struggling hospitals.
Trump’s tariff chaos triggers global backlash, economic turmoil, and growing revolt...
Critics say president’s abrupt reversal on sweeping tariffs shows lack of coherent strategy and deepens damage to workers, consumers, and U.S. global standing.
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.
The United States needs a ‘Robin Hood Tax’
A giant tax fight awaits next year—when a number of the 2017 tax cuts for the rich and businesses expire.
How Wall Street priced you out of a home
Investor purchases hit their peak in 2022, accounting for around 28% of all home sales in America.
Analysis details how Wall Street underwriting quietly funnels billions into fossil...
"Underwriting is a huge missing piece of net-zero transition plans, allowing big U.S. banks to continue to help fossil fuel companies raise billions of dollars with limited scrutiny," said one campaigner.
Imagine a world where CEOs get paid $3 million a year
Being a well-paid CEO means something very different today than it did fifty years ago.
Wall Street bonuses decline but still dwarf worker pay increases since...
Since 2008, growth in the average Wall Street bonus has far outstripped wage growth for ordinary U.S. workers.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.