by Richard Eskow | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
In April 2006, while Goldman was preparing an RMBS backed by Countrywide loans for securitization, a Goldman mortgage department manager circulated a “very bullish” equity research report that recommended the purchase of Countrywide stock. Goldman’s head of due...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law. That still doesn’t make him the moderate he wants people to think he is. Kasich said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
If you don't have a bank account – and millions of American's don't – how do you cash a check or pay a bill? Even if you do have a bank account, how do you get a small loan in an emergency? One survey showed that as many as 63 percent of Americans would be strapped to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Saying they are "alarmed by the implications for access to medicines [created by] the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)" a coalition of 50 groups concerned with public health sent a letter asking Congress to oppose the so-called "trade" agreement. The groups say that...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
Grandma skips meals. Her house is always cold. She barely skimps by, subsisting on just Social Security because of a bunch of pension-killing CEOs and self-dealing financial “advisers.” The U.S. Labor Department offered some rules last week to help grandma with half...
by Mary Green Swig | Steven L. Swig | Roger Hickey | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Education
A new wave of activism against student debt is on the move again this week. The students taking the lead represent the advance guard of an even more massive army that is mobilizing around the idea that higher education should be an investment we make as a society....
