by Richard Eskow | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
There's talk that the president and other elected officials will try to tap the Occupy Wall Street movement's energy to boost their campaigns. It's good to see the rhetoric finally moving in the right direction. Even better, now there's an easy way to prove it isn't...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Our captured government won’t do its job. It doesn't keep Wall Street and banks and giant corporations from ripping us off and doesn't prosecute them after they do. It doesn't stop polluters - even as the effects of climate change increase. It doesn't enforce...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
The New Bottom Line, one of the organizations leading the "move your money" movement and the national "Bank Transfer Day" on Saturday, announced today that nearly $50 million had been removed from Bank of America and other Wall Street banks. With that as a start, the...
by | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. I predicted two things in the Sept. 6 Fiscal Fitness — the first published after the Budget Control Act was signed into law this past Aug. 2 — that are coming true faster than I, even on my most cynical days, would have...
by Steven Capozzola | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
America's defense supply chain put at risk by purchase of counterfeit, salvaged products from China. The U.S. Department of Defense has been buying counterfeit electronic parts from China. A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation led by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI)...
