How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule
The most powerful master is the one who rules unseen and unmentioned.
Money for Nothing
Years after the Enron debacle, traders are still fleecing consumers through obscure electricity market loopholes.
This Recession Isn’t Temporary
America could use a new stimulus package.
U.S. Nurses Bring Global Call to Tax Speculators to Wall Street
National Nurses United stands with activists across the globe to bring attention to the need for a financial speculation tax.
Cut Wall Street Down to Size With a Financial Speculation Tax
A financial speculation tax might not have stopped those greed-crazed fools, but at least Uncle Sam would’ve taken in about $1.1 billion on the deals.
Nurses Join Call to “Tax Wall Street”
A swarm of around a thousand nurses in scarlet scrubs descended on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in downtown Washington to call for a new economic agenda.
The SEC’s Revolving Door
The agency is too cozy with the financial industry it oversees.
The SEC Foxes
For these suits going through the SEC’s revolving door, ethics rules are for the birds.
America’s Housing Paradox
There’s money to bail out the banks but not to bail out the homeless.
Big Bankers Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
The big money lurks in schemes and scams.
Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators
There are still places in the world where folks from across the political spectrum can have a rational discussion about fair taxation.
Scapegoating Social Spending
Congress is about to slaughter social spending but leave a lot of sacred cows alone.
The Media Flunks WikiLeaks 101
Pressures are mounting internationally for us to behave ourselves, as we have recently been forced to do in Egypt.
Food, Egypt, and Wall Street
As Egypt and the Middle East rise, Wall Street and congressional Republicans continue to ignore the financial reforms the world is demanding.
A Banker who Gets It
Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, truly is a rarity.