Tag: Wall Street
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.
How Wall Street enabled the fracking ‘revolution’ that’s losing billions
Imagine begging banks to stop loaning you money. And being ignored.
Why the DNC is fighting WikiLeaks and not Wall Street
With eyes on the prizes from corporate largesse, DNC officials don’t see downsides to whacking at WikiLeaks and undermining press freedom in the process.
The secret of the great American fracking bubble
The series will look at how fracking companies are shifting these epic losses to the American taxpayers.
Forget the Dow Jones. How’s Doug Jones?
The stock market is owned by the rich. It tells you little about how ordinary Americans are doing.
Former Equifax executive charged with insider trading
Jun Ying reaped proceeds of nearly $1 million.
Banks raked in $6.4 Billion in overdraft fees in 2017. Where’s...
Think about this: the world's most bloated financial giants are growing even fatter and richer off the backs of people who are already broke.
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House vote moves to undo Trump orders stripping union rights from federal workers
A bipartisan majority backed the Protect America’s Workforce Act to reverse what labor leaders call the “single-largest act of union busting in American history,” restoring collective bargaining protections for nearly 1 million federal employees.
FBI is making an enemies list—and most corporate media didn’t even check it once
The counter-revolution will not be televised.
Winter storm exposes Gaza shelter crisis as UN warns Palestinians left to freeze
As torrential rain floods tent encampments and an 8 month old baby dies of exposure, UN officials and aid groups say Israel’s continued blockade of shelter and supplies is deepening a humanitarian emergency despite ceasefire commitments.
We need to know how corporate Democrats made President Trump possible
Scrutinizing them now is vital not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a clear focus on ways to prevent further catastrophe.
Trump and Republicans want taxpayers to fund their pet project: Private schools
A proposal for a nationwide federally supported school voucher program is just another of President Trump’s schemes to give advantages to the rich at the expense of the rest of us.