Tag: Wall Street
Do Democrats really need Wall Street?
A former Democratic operative writes in The New York Times that the party needs to drop FDR's progressive coalition and strengthen ties to Wall Street. He's dead wrong.
The next subprime loan crisis
Wall Street is siphoning billions of investment dollars into high-risk, subprime auto loans.
What happened to all those foreclosed houses?
Wall Street bought them – and is now leasing them out and driving up rents.
Wall Street thieves find new ways to steal from us
The "new way" is the same old story of the rich robbing the rest of us.
More evidence that inequality is spiraling out of control
Without empathy for lower-income Americans, Wall Street is content to ignore the ugly reality of our ever-widening wealth gap.
A tax on Wall Street trading is the best solution to...
This is a great example of a clearly defined policy that will directly reverse some of the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades.
What Trump’s idea to break up big banks could mean for...
While it is unclear whether Trump’s plans are serious, it’s worth considering what breaking up the banks could mean for typical bank customers.
Wall Street’s house of cards: Let’s play bankster three card monte
We haven’t even scratched the surface of the many many years and billions if not trillions of dollars scammed, tricked, kicked (hard) and stolen, and the harm done to the middle and working class.
You pay your fair share. Shouldn’t Wall Street?
While you and I file our taxes, Republicans want to make it even easier for big banks to dodge them.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
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.