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A Letter -- And a Challenge -- To An Anonymous Wall Street Whiner
An anonymous email's been making the rounds on Wall Street from some loser who thinks he's a shark. It's a nasty piece of work that reveals the mentality of the people that have been running our economy for some time, thanks to deregulation and political influence...
The Other 98% Takes Wall Street
I am a founding member of The Other 98% and I am really proud of this growing organization. We are speedily closing in on 30,000 facebook fans since the beginning of April. I am really proud of the awesome video that we made to showcase our involvement in the Show...
Conservative & Corporate Failure in the Deepwater Disaster
The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their response to the growing ecological...
Audit The Fed!
Despite all of the attention heaped on the Treasury Department and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve served as the chief bank bailout engine in the U.S. economy during the . But unlike the Treasury, the Fed isn't subject to basic government...
We Need Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. And Jobs.
Things are good for the plutocrats. Stock market soaring, bonuses are big... Thinks are going mighty fine. So fine, in fact, that the urgency of extending unemployment, COBRA and programs to help the people harmed by the financial disaster is moving off the table. But...
Conservative Assault On Public Schools Gets Schooled Again
In June 2008, former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich Jr.—a conservative who is now seeking the Republican nomination to get his old job back—was at an education conference in which he touted charter schools, private institutions that operate in competition to public...
Progressive Breakfast - 5/3/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Wall Street Reform Amendments...
The Insecurity State: Inequality's Hidden Price Tag
What happens to societies that don’t share the wealth? They spend — and waste — a fortune guarding it. The latest over-the-top example: Oracle has spent $4.6 million on “residential security” for billionaire CEO Larry Ellison. The Great...
Blanche Lincoln Rambos Wall Street
The financial services reform bill is on the Senate floor this week. The recently announced criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs, the bumbling testimony of Goldman's "Fabulous Fab" and the rocking Wall Street protest last Thursday show that momentum is with...
At Last! Simple New Test Shows If Your Politician's Telling the Truth About "Too Big to Fail"
We thought we'd write a little radio ad for the SAFE Banking proposal being put forward in the House and Senate. But this ad's not just promoting a policy - it's selling a litmus test. This amendment finally gives us a chance to find out whether those politicians who...
