The Whining Of The Billionaires
Jim Hightower: JPMorgan CEO’s Whining For Pity Is So Misguided Jamie Dimon said that banks are under assault–yet his company scored a $22 billion profit. By Jim Hightower J.P. Morgan was recently...
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Economic Plan Is a Quandary for Hillary Clinton’s Campaign By AMY CHOZICK Hillary Rodham Clinton in Indiana in 2008. Her economic message in that campaign resonated with white, working-class voters....
View ArticleDetroit Was Just The Beginning
Is There Anything the Government Can Do to Stop Wall Street From Ripping Off Retirees? Can government stop conflicts of interest by financial advisers? By Eric Laursen The following is the latest...
View ArticleSome Democrats Are Republicans At Heart
Chuck Schumer—Friend Of Wall Street and War—Ready to Be Anointed Head of the Senate Democrats Here’s why the ascendance of the Democrat from New York is worrisome. By Zaid Jilani Last week, Senate...
View ArticleWall Street Owns Both Sides Anyway
A Deepening Democratic Party Divide By David Sirota For those pining for a Democratic Party that tries to represent more than the whims of the rich and powerful, these are, to say the least,...
View ArticleIt Is All About The Money…
Rahm Emanuel: A Symbol of Much of What Is Wrong with America Nearly 60 percent of his 103 donors received “contracts, zoning changes, business permits or some other tangible benefit” By Paul Bucheit...
View ArticleWall Street: We Told You We Own The Clintons
Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street backers: We get it Populist rhetoric, many say, is good politics — but doesn’t portend an assault on the rich. By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI, KENNETH P. VOGEL and BEN WHITE...
View ArticleWall Street: Jails Have Been Very Good To Us
9 Surprising Industries Profiting Handsomely from America’s Insane Prison System Business is booming thanks to the prison-industrial complex. By Alex Henderson It’s no coincidence that the United...
View ArticleClintons: Wall Street Very Good To Us
Inside the Clintons’ Cozy Relationship With the Big Banks Whatever her populist pitch may be in the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton has not publicly condemned Wall Street. By Nomi Prins The past,...
View ArticleWall Street: We Fuck Everybody Worldwide
Matt Taibbi: World’s Largest Banks Admit to Massive Global Financial Crimes, But Escape Jail (Again) This is about as serious a financial crime as you can possibly get, says the Rolling Stone...
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