Tag: Wall Street
Wall Street’s $3 billion political investment is a bargain
The For the People Act would loosen the financial industry’s grip over our political system.
Ahead of Biden order on climate financial risk, coalition says Wall...
“Plans to make plans in no way matches the urgency of the climate crisis; we need action from regulators now to stop the money pipeline to climate chaos.”
If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street...
The 2020 bonus pool for 182,100 securities industry employees could pay for more than 1 million jobs paying $15 per hour for a year.
The (revealing) short squeeze: Populism comes for Wall Street?
“We don’t have billionaires to bail us out when we mess up our portfolio risk and a position goes against us.”
Goldman Sachs: Benefits of ‘blue wave’ and $2.5 trillion stimulus outweigh...
“As right-wing hacks predict economic disaster if Biden wins, worth pointing out that private-sector analysts are remarkably bullish.”
Sanders slams Republican Senate for happily approving $740 billion for pentagon...
“Instead of more austerity for the working class of this country, we need to impose austerity on the billionaire class and on Wall Street.”
What Wall Street doesn’t want you to know about hospital emergency...
The furor over patients hit by surprise medical bills revealed that TeamHealth controls the billing for the doctors it supplies to hospital emergency rooms.
The future of Exxon and the Permian’s flaring crisis
Chevron has already admitted that it might cut spending in response to the sudden Saudi-Russia price war. Exxon too might soon have to slam on the brakes.
Sanders says Trump clemency for ‘Wall Street crooks’ and ‘corrupt’ officials...
"This is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like."
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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.
Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage
Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.
Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...
Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.
Million-dollar earners stop paying into Social Security for 2026
Recent polling indicates significant public support for reform, with approximately 71 percent of voters favoring a tax increase on wealthy Americans to guarantee the program's solvency.
Big oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.