Tag: Wall Street
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.
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.
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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization
Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?