by Robert Reich | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
If you haven’t yet seen “The Big Short” – directed and co-written by Adam McKay, based on the non-fiction prize-winning book by Michael Lewis about the housing and credit bubble that triggered the Great Recession — I recommend you do so. Not only is the movie an...
by Larry Cohen | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ major policy speech at Town Hall in New York City on Tuesday – in which he declared that he will “break up any banks that are too big to fail and that big bankers will not be too big to jail” – felt a lot like the last...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/R6e47vJ89p0[/fve] "Greed is not good. In fact, the greed of Wall Street and corporate America is destroying the very fabric of our nation." - Senator Bernie Sanders Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pledged on Tuesday that if...
by Robert Reich | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Martin Shkreli, the former hedge-fund manager turned pharmaceutical CEO who was arrested last week, has been described as a sociopath and worse. In reality, he’s a brasher and larger version of what others in finance and corporate suites do all the time. Federal...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 16, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Conservatism, Economy, Financial Reform, This Is The GOP
The "omnibus" budget for the next year is out. Here are some of the winners and losers. With a Republican Congress, every budget battle is about ratcheting down the things our government does to make our lives better. Every budget battle is a defensive action, with...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
At the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton inadvertently sparked a firestorm when she invoked her woman donors and 9/11 as a defense to Bernie Sanders calling out her Wall Street donors. As Molly Ball tweeted, playing both the women’s card and the 9/11 card in one...
