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When Too Big To Fail Fails: The Scheme To Seize Depositors' Money
Unprosecuted, unreformed, unregulated and unrepentant, Wall Street parties on – and the money we thought was our own, protected in our checking and savings accounts, could be taken in an instant.
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Iceland Recovering Fastest in Europe After Jailing Bankers Instead of Bailing them Out
The island Nordic nation is on track to become the first European country that suffered in the financial meltdown to “surpass its pre-crisis peak of economic output” – proving to the U.S. that bailing out “too big to fail” banks wasn’t the way to go.
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Fixed Fortunes: Biggest Corporate Political Interests Spent Billions, and Got Trillions In Return
Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions – and were paid back $4.4 trillion in federal business and support.
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The Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
To buy Greece's bonds as collateral, the European Central Bank is first asking the country to sell off its public assets, slash salaries and pensions, drastically increase taxes and dismantle its social services – all to save the banking system.
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"Zuccotti Park" Musical In New York Shines A Light on Occupy and Economic Justice
It's not easy writing a play about injustice in America much as it's not easy telling the complex, multi-layered story of the Occupy movement – something Catherine Hurd set out to do in her musical that premieres this week.
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How Public Banking is Winning the West
From Washington and Colorado to Arizona and New Mexico, the movement to create city and regional public banks is heating up.
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Occupy Syriza: Economic Tremors Spread Through Europe In Aftermath of Greek Election
The victory of Greece's leftwing Syriza party is sending shockwaves through Europe’s political establishment as popular resistance to the politics of austerity builds.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part V
In today's bailout economy, bad bank loans are shifted onto the public balance sheet as wealth is siphoned off to the top of the economic pyramid.
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The U.S. Corporate State Has Become the Monarch Our Founders Despised
Just as King George extracted wealth and resources from the colonies for his own gain in the 18th century, the current U.S. corporate state is extracting wealth and resources from the American people – and at a much greater rate.
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Quantum of Justice: Doug Boggs, the Foreclosure Crisis and the Truth "Right In Front Of Our Eyes"
"When I saw that fraudulent paperwork was being filed in order for Wells Fargo to expedite a foreclosure against our property, I knew then that the courts were failing our society."
