Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin's 72 counties marched into the state's election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,...
View ArticleStress Testing Tim Geithner
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in the State of the Union this week President Obama struck some of his most populist themes yet. He wants to tax millionaires, bring back manufacturing and prosecute the...
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Wall Street Titans Support Financial Speculation Tax
Top Bank CEOs Express Contrition for Financial Crisis and Willingness to “Pay Their Fair Share”Washington, DC – On the eve of Tax Day, as millions of Americans are still struggling with hard times and...
View Article99% Spring has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County
This spring, in coordinated actions across the country, retirees who lost their pensions, families whose homes are underwater, students with impossible debt, the unemployed and underemployed, family...
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A Sea of Robin Hoods Tell the G8, "It's Time to Tax Wall Street!"
Thousands of nurses from around the world descended upon Daley Plaza, in the heart of Chicago on May 18, to demand that the richest nations in the world put an end to austerity politics and start...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: Bankrolled by the Banksters, the Privatizers, and the Kochs
In the 14 years that Paul Ryan has been a Congressman from Southeastern Wisconsin, he has never had a challenger of any stature or a race of any significance. Janesville, his hometown and the heart of...
View ArticleIt Ain't Over Till It's Over: Wall Street Gears Up for Austerity Battles of 2013
For better or worse, a bill passed Congress in the wee hours of 2013 averting the much-hyped "fiscal cliff" for now and raising taxes on couples making over $450,000 and extending a lifeline of...
View ArticleThat Bad Ceiling Feeling: Unlike the Fiscal Cliff the Debt Ceiling Is the...
Missing the fiscal cliff? Don't know what to talk about at the dinner table?Get ready, the Bipartisan Policy Center has predicted that on February 15, 2013, the U.S. Treasury will take in an estimated...
View ArticleFrontline Gets Its Man: Lanny Breuer Leaves DOJ After Exposé
In a testament to the power of independent media, the award-winning public television show Frontline this week helped push a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official out the door.read more
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JP Morgan Gets an Award for London Whale Fiasco, Will Schneiderman Harpoon...
A JPMorgan Chase employee stepped onstage at a black-tie gala on Wall Street last week to accept a “best crisis management” award given by an investor relations magazine. The bank, which was recently...
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