Wall Street’s Speed Freaks
The high-frequency trading that dominates the stock market could trigger another global financial crisis.
99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It
Chuck Collins’ new book provides revealing and powerful information about inequality in all realms of today’s world, including individual wealth and power, corporate wealth and power, media control, political influence, and other areas.
Down and Out on Wall Street
We should all be as broke as they are.
Happy Days Here Again, 21st Century-Style
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession’s deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide.
No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon
Nearly a year after the Fukushima disaster and more than three decades after the Three Mile Island accident, nuclear power remains expensive, dangerous, and too radioactive for Wall Street.
Occupy vs. the Global Race to the Bottom
Incorporating corporate globalization into the Occupy analysis and agenda.
Risky Business
Astronomic compensation remains the norm on Wall Street.
American Roulette
You take the risks, they reap the profits.
Overthrow Wall Street
We may not yet have reached our Tahrir Square moment, but it’s looming.
America Is Not Broke: Fiscal Reforms that Washington Needs to Consider
Taxing Wall Street, corporations and the wealthy; taxing pollution and ending environmentally harmful subsidies; and cutting military spending to bring America back.
A Main Street Fix to Wall Street’s Failure
Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Main Street.
A Main Street Jobs Agenda
Putting more money in the hands of those who already have jobs so they can buy more Chinese imports does very little to put Americans to work in good jobs that pay good wages.
How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.
Big Banks are Doing Just Fine, Thank You
This virtual abandonment of local economies by Wall Street exploded when Uncle Sam bailed out the big banks.
America Is Not Broke
How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.