by Alan Jenkins | May 29, 2012 | Blog
The ink’s barely dry on the historic settlement of “robo-signing” and other abusive foreclosure practices by five big banks. But, already, some states are raiding the settlement funds to finance activities having nothing to do with preventing foreclosures or...
by Leo Gerard | May 29, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney made a boatload of money for himself and his fellow fat cats. No doubt about it. Billions. But he made it the way Americans hate most – Wall Street style wheeling and dealing. Americans hate it because when all that scheming went bad, when the market...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 28, 2012 | Blog
A perfectly respectable business panel is urging corporate boards to ditch the ridiculous rationalizations for CEO pay excess and narrow the gargantuan corporate pay gap. Step one: end CEO stock options. In Corporate America, the emperors have no clothes. The entire...
by Dave Johnson | May 28, 2012 | Blog
This spring the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement arrived at corporate shareholder meetings, with the 99% Power coalition demanding decent corporate governance that serves the interests of We, the People rather than just a few people. There are results inside...
by Dave Johnson | May 28, 2012 | Blog
The Mitt Romney campaign is airing an ad promising that on his first day in office Romney would "stand up to China" and demand "they play by the rules." Romney has the opportunity right now to demonstrate that he will live up to these words. He can ask Republicans in...
