Wall Street now hopes you die
In case there was any doubt that the Wall Street scum that destroyed the US economy with junk mortgages, mortgage-swaps and whatever schemes they concocted to suck the life out of the economy have...
View ArticleObama says Wall Street “choosing to ignore” lessons learned
What? Wall Street is choosing to do what it does best, makes piles of cash anyone they can? And now Obama is bemoaning them for "choosing to ignore" lessons they should have learned when bank after...
View ArticleNewsweek: Last Chance for Justice
As he ushered in a new era in Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt's theme song was "Happy Days Are Here Again," but people tend to forget that along with sunny optimism FDR delivered a strong dose of...
View ArticleWe may never recover
The economic collapse most of us are still suffering through isn't over. Sure Wall Street bounced back in just a few short months, but for the rest of us, we're left struggling to pay our rent and to...
View ArticleWall Street’s Fascist Conspiracy Part 1
Here’s the complete story written by John L. Spivak in 1935 published in New Masses detailing a Wall Street tycoon plot to overthrow the government with a military coup. It was a real coup, but most...
View ArticleSpeculating Banks Still Rule — Ten Ways Dems and Dodd Are Failing on...
Nomi Prins is a senior fellow at the public policy center Demos and she published a story today on Alternet about how Wall Street fatcats are raking in stacks of cash and up to their old tricks again...
View ArticleMitch McConnell’s Lying Oily Smarmy Face Makes Me Downright Punchy
When I hear Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) speak I want choke him. I’m not necessarily a violent person, but when I see McConnell’s greasy white face on TV I want to punch him in the throat. The Senate...
View ArticleSecurities and Exchange Commission Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud
Fresh from the Friday news dump, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit against Goldman Sachs alleging that the firm engaged in securities fraud. The too-big-fail Wall Street giant...
View ArticleKrugman: Looters in Loafers
The main moral you should draw from the charges against Goldman, though, doesn’t involve the fine print of reform; it involves the urgent need to change Wall Street. Listening to financial-industry...
View ArticleMoyers: Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product – Is the U.S. at the...
So even if the Tea Party folks saw the light, what can ordinary Americans do? That's the question I want to put to my guests, Simon Johnson and James Kwak. They have written this new book, 13 Bankers:...
View ArticleThis American Life: Inside Job with Ira Glass
For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the...
View ArticleObama’s Weekly Address: Good News from the Auto Industry
As the auto industry and financial markets begin to stabilize, the President says the government’s emergency interventions can now wind down. He pledges that real reform, particularly on Wall Street,...
View ArticleDocuments From the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Role of...
Here are the documents regarding the hearings about the role of investments bankers (e.g. Goldman Sachs) leading to the Great Recession.Read more
View ArticleGlenn Beck Said it First, July 21, 2010 Is the Day Our Country Died
On his show today Glenn Beck said that today, Wednesday July 21, 2010 would go down in history along side of October 29, 1929 (The Great Depression), December 7, 1941 (World War II) and September 11,...
View ArticleMatt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone story on gangster Wall Street
Matt Taibbi does a great job reporting on this Wall Street criminal trial, which I had never heard about until today. Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American...
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