Tag: Wall Street
‘Total embarrassment:’ WaPo rebuked for failed fact-check of Sanders on trillion-dollar...
"The piece portends to be an exercise in empirical rigor and mathematical precision. But he's really just playing games with semantics and definitions. And people who understand the issues he 'fact-checks' can see it."
‘It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders:’ Wall Street...
"The best indication of who you should vote for in the Democratic primary if you actually want progressive policy is who Wall Street doesn't like, which essentially means Bernie or Warren."
Applause as AOC, Porter, Pressley, and Tlaib head to House Financial...
"Now our movement has a voice to take on the greed and recklessness on Wall Street."
States can break up big banks. Here’s how.
Big banks are unpopular in both red and blue states; breaking them up could attract support across party lines and prove a winning electoral strategy.
Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers
Rather, the demise of the real news reporting by our city and regional papers is a product of their profiteering owners.
Fracking in 2018: Another year of pretending to make money
Instead, the fracking industry has helped set new records for U.S. oil production while continuing to lose huge amounts of money – and that was before the recent crash in oil prices.
Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.
Your favorite charity has most of its money in Wall Street
About 93 percent of charitable foundation money is parked in Wall Street investments. But foundations are starting to make better choices.
One way to skip Wall Street and invest in your community
The reality is, wealth is usually only a small part of the package of other intergenerational advantages.
Breaking with Wall Street: LA puts it to the voters
The numbers are there to support the case for a city-owned bank, but a critical ingredient in effecting revolutionary change is finding the political will.
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‘A clown show:’ RFK Jr. fires CDC panel & stacks it with anti-vaxxers, cuts...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrew U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization.
Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?
While politicians regularly partner with business, when should they collaborate with grassroots movements?
Asia warming at twice the global Average: WMO report
The State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report, released Monday, shows the continent is heating up at twice the global average rate, leading to devastating impacts for ecosystems, societies and economies across the region.
Global elite gain $33.9 trillion as poverty fight collapses, Oxfam warns ahead of global...
A decade after world leaders pledged to end inequality and poverty, the richest 1 percent have captured explosive wealth while development goals fall dangerously off track.
Recycling food waste could slash methane emissions and reshape the global agrifood system
New research shows that composting, anaerobic digestion, and refeeding food waste can significantly cut greenhouse gases and spare vital resources across the U.S., China, and the EU.