Tag: Wall Street
Bernie Challenges Hillary to Release Her Secret Wall Street Speeches
Hillary Clinton is being hard-pressed to release the transcripts of multiple speeches she was paid to give to big banks like Goldman Sachs. What is she so afraid of?
Inequality Against Democracy: 10 Facts About the 1 Percent
“We are living through the greatest ‘wealth grab’ in history. But inequality is not produced by immutable forces. It’s the result of a legislative agenda promoted by the rich and executed by their political allies.”
Jail The Bankers And Take Back Control Over Money
If the economic proposals described in this episode of Clearing the FOG were put into effect, Wall Street would be tamed and the people would regain control of the economy.
Why Wall Street Won the First Round and How We Might...
To avoid further crises with huge tragic social costs, we have an urgent task to bring finance back under democratic control, to reconfigure society’s relation to finance capital, indeed, to Capital itself.
Attacking Wall Street and the Corrupt US Political System Makes Sanders...
A Marxist take on the Sanders candidacy argues that his support for US imperialist military actions won't matter much if he follows through as president on his calls to break up the banks and get corporate money out of the political system.
170 Economists and Analysts Support Bernie’s Plan to Break Up the...
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and CEPR’s Dean Baker are just two of the highly respected individuals that have pledged their support.
New Bernie Sanders Campaign Ad Vows to Break Up Big Banks
“Under my administration, Goldman Sachs execs and other Wall Street CEOs won’t go through the revolving door from Wall Street to government.”
“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
"To paraphrase philosopher George Santayana, those who cannot remember they were screwed by Wall Street are condemned to be screwed again."
The Most Important Campaign Speech: Bernie on the Banks
The most important campaign speech this political season broken down piece by piece.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.