Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Tag: Wall Street

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.

Steven Mnuchin, foreclosure king of America

Secretary of the Treasury for the .01%

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.

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The dark side of ecotourism: When green travel exploits people and the planet

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Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

FCC faces backlash over push to lift media ownership limits amid threats to local...

Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.