Tag: Wall Street
Ten years since economic collapse sparked Occupy Wall Street, the Cooperative...
“I think … we recognize we really haven’t done anything serious to deal with the causes of this crash.”
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
The three big lessons we didn’t learn from the economic crisis
The Street’s political clout is as great as ever, which explains why the Dodd-Frank safeguards are now being watered down – clearing the way for another crisis.
How to recognize a plutocracy: The dead giveaway
Our latest slam-dunk evidence: the record of the decade since the Wall Street financial crash ushered in the Great Recession.
By exploiting and mismanaging public pensions, Wall Street has cost taxpayers...
"Most people (including policymakers) still have no idea that skimming fees off public employees' retirement savings has become one of the largest sources of profits for Wall Street moguls."
‘Privatization is not the answer:’ Grave warnings as Wall Street vultures...
"It should instead focus on basic services and ensure that every Puerto Rican has access to safe public water."
For captured regulators, repealing the Volcker Rule is child’s play
One thing’s for certain: if there’s another financial crisis, it could make the last one look like child’s play.
Why the only answer is to break up the biggest Wall...
Why should banks ever be permitted to use peoples’ bank deposits – insured by the federal government – to place risky bets on the banks’ own behalf?
The retired General who stopped a Wall Street coup
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.
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Sanders pushes ‘Pensions for All’ to confront corporate greed and America’s retirement crisis
With nearly half of older workers having no retirement savings, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces sweeping legislation to guarantee all Americans the same pension security enjoyed by members of Congress.
Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...
On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.
Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump
Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?
Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows
Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.