The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Belated Valentine To Wells Fargo: How To Break Up With Your Bank
As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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The Economics of Climate Change, Part II: Crash or Transformation?
The 1%’s power to shape the narrative at a time of crisis is crucial – but repeating what happened after the 2008 crash will be far more difficult this time around.
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Wells Fargo, You Can Run But You Can’t Hide: A Homeowner's Testimony
"I stepped into the very carefully laid trap of Wells Fargo – nothing short of a nightmare that is ongoing today as I mark seven years in this fight for my home," says former managing real estate broker Therese Crowley of Illinois.
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Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking?
Central Bank Digital Currencies could supplant the money now created by private banks.
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Too Rigged to Fail: The Homeowner Hampster Wheel of Mortgage Fraud
If the government won’t break up the banks, then we the people need to break up with the banks. The only way they will feel our pain is if people move their money out of them – then demand accountability and jail time for the elite financial criminals.
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Here's What Wall Street Reform Looks Like Under A President Sanders
Breaking up big banks, reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, restructuring credit rating agencies, and holding bankers accountable for their crimes would begin to address some of the most relevant issues.
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Merchandised Consumer Democracy: The Cause of the Economic Cancer in the United States
A socially democratic citizens’ revolution to secure a new and just government and economy is an immediate necessity.
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Fed's Kashkari, in first speech, suggests radical Wall St. overhaul
Neel Kashkari, the Fed's newest policymaker and a former Goldman Sachs exec who helped manage the government's rescue of the financial industry, called on lawmakers this week to take radical action to rein in banks and protect taxpayers.
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Why Wall Street Won the First Round and How We Might Win the Next
Will it take a coming crisis to finally achieve what the reaction of the 2008 financial crisis failed to do – place finance capital under restraints? Iceland may have been the exception to the rule, but it shows that democratic control of the banks is possible.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
