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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The Bankster Welfare State: Where Crime Pays
In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.
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Crimes Were Committed—Before, during and after the crisis, Financial Felonies abounded
Here's Why No One Went to Jail After the 2008 Financial Crisis. To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question.
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The Crisis Next Time: Public Ownership As an Alternative to Corporate Bank Bailouts
The FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) in the current corporate capitalist economy is dysfunctional and downright dangerous to the welfare of society. It's time for public ownership.
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Wells Fargo's Playbook: How To Rob The Average Joe and Still Retain Your Stock Options
The housing crisis, the outsourcing of American jobs, the decline in U.S. manufacturing, the politics of circus-like tricks, illusions and freakish sideshow distractions make for hungry lower classes and angry mobs at gated parking lots.
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No-Fault Crash: A New Book Explains How Financial Big-Wigs Skated after the Subprime Disaster
As Jesse Eisinger writes in his new book, the Justice Department “has lost the will and indeed the ability to go after highest-ranking corporate wrongdoers.”
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You Can’t Be Serious: Debunking The Dangerous Arguments Against Dodd-Frank
Dodd-Frank, however imperfect, isn’t just about protecting average folks from reckless, predatory finance. It’s also about protecting Big Finance from itself.
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Wells Fargo's Lyin' Cheatin' Ways: Banking with a Sociopathic Institution and How to Let Go
Let's face it: That harmless tall handsome stone wall that promises you the world, smiles at you shamelessly through bulletproof glass and marble floors, black suits and lollipops, is a sociopathic lover out to take all that you hold dear.
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Banking On Wells Fargo: Financial Russian Roulette for Suckers
If there is no respect for justice, fairness or integrity in our financial system or governance, there will be a reaction of civil unrest, more violence, civil disobedience and utter chaos.
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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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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.