Calling to revive the middle class isn't enough. It's time to take on the Wall Street banks, big corporations and richest Americans who drive inequality.

Insurance, banking and defense companies spent big bucks to ensure their interests were included in December's spending package.

"It's crazy, it's unconscionable, but that is the reality," says noted MIT economist Simon Johnson.

Advocates don't have their Vermont Public Bank yet, but the compromise they reached was still a rare and significant win over Wall Street banks.

The GOP will take advantage of their majority to chip away at restrictions placed on big banks to prevent the risk-taking that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

K Street has been salivating over a $1 trillion spending bill that will keep the government open. Here's a look at what they want.

Though it's already behind schedule, banks say they need until 2020 to comply with the Volcker rule.

Despite a new report that the danger has eased, experts warn that another banking crisis could happen anytime.

Republicans got their way and car dealers were exempted from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight. A new investigation finds that giant loans are going to poor people with bad credit.

Four years after Dodd-Frank was signed into a law, much of it is yet to be implemented and the risks to the economy remain.