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  • Economy & Work
    Don’t Let Wall Street Run Amok
    November 21, 2017
    | Elizabeth Warren
    Let’s keep Trump from undermining the agency that protects consumers from bank malpractice.
  • Democracy & Government
    Warren Demands Investigation Into Obama's Failure to Jail Bankers
    September 15, 2016
    | Lauren McCauley
    "I can think of no matter of 'intense public interest' about which 'the American people deserve the details' than the issue of what precisely happened to the criminal referrals that followed the 2008 crash."
  • News for the 99%
    December 8, 2015

    As the saying goes, they (the 1 percent at the top) only call it class warfare when the rest of us (the 99 percent) are fighting back. Since the economic meltdown of 2008’s Great Recession and the Occupy movement of protest and action, the specter of vast, ever-expanding income inequality across the planet has been countered by a growing awareness among the rest of us of the gravity of the problem, its disastrous implications for ...

  • The ‘Anti-Knowledge’ of the Elites
    November 2, 2015
    | Mike Lofgren
    The American ruling class is ensconced in the "Washington Consensus" and deaf to any evidence that challenges its worldview.
  • Bank Reform Five Years Later: Still Incomplete
    July 21, 2015
    | Robert Borosage
    This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.
  • Hillary Clinton’s Mistake on Glass-Steagall
    July 16, 2015
    | Robert Reich
    In the roaring 2000s, just as in the Roaring Twenties, America’s big banks used insured deposits to underwrite their gambling in private securities, and then dumped the securities on their customers.
  • The Republican Strategy to Deregulate Wall St
    January 8, 2015 | Updated January 15, 2015
    | Simon Johnson
    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.
  • Too Big to Jail?
    October 3, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    A veteran bank regulator lays bare how Washington and Wall Street are joined in a culture of corruption.
  • Inequality
    Ferguson, Foreclosure and Hedge-Fund Landlords
    September 5, 2014
    | John Light
    Financial entities are buying up and renting out underwater properties in Ferguson — and across the country.
  • Flashback: Elizabeth Warren Tells a Story About Hillary Clinton, Wall Street and Lobbying
    September 5, 2014
    In this 2004 video clip, Warren recounts a meeting she had with first lady Hillary Clinton in the late 1990s, her positions on bankruptcy legislation at that time, and how everything changed after she became a New York senator.


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