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Voices Rising Against Hedge Fund Millionaire Larry Summers to Head the Fed

by Lisa Graves — August 5, 2013 - 8:41am
  • Topics: BanksterUSA

    • Opposition is growing to the idea of President Obama naming Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve. As William Greider wrote in The Nation, "Summers is a toxic retread from the old boys' network and a nettlesome egotist who offended just about everyone during his previous tours in government. More to the point, Summers was a central player in the grave governing errors that led to the financial collapse and a ruined economy."

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    New Report By U.S. PIRG Targets Cash Stashed Overseas

    by PRW Staff — March 5, 2013 - 1:09pm
  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, BanksterUSA, Economy, Real Economy Project

    • In our new report on Fix the Debt, CMD reveals that part of the Fix the Debt's hidden corporate agenda is to push for new tax loopholes that would actually add to the deficit. Specifically, many Fix the Debt firms want to exempt money made offshore from taxation in the United States. Opening this new loophole would cost the Treasury some $1 trillion over 10 years according to Citizens for Tax Justice.

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    Paul Ryan: Bankrolled by the Banksters, the Privatizers, and the Kochs

    by Mary Bottari — August 13, 2012 - 7:46am
  • Topics: BanksterUSA, Corporations, Democracy, Economy

    • In the 14 years that Paul Ryan has been a Congressman from Southeastern Wisconsin, he has never had a challenger of any stature or a race of any significance. Janesville, his hometown and the heart of the district, has no TV stations and only a handful of small, scrappy newspapers. What an opportunity for a man of the people to take the highroad!

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    A Sea of Robin Hoods Tell the G8, "It's Time to Tax Wall Street!"

    by Harriet Rowan — May 20, 2012 - 6:52am
  • Topics: Activism, Banking, BanksterUSA, Economy

    • Thousands of nurses from around the world descended upon Daley Plaza, in the heart of Chicago on May 18, to demand that the richest nations in the world put an end to austerity politics and start asking the people who collapsed the global economy to do more to "heal the world."

    Wearing red National Nurses United (NNU) scrubs calling for "an economy for the 99%" and zippy green Robin Hood hats, made for them in Europe, the nurses were joined by Occupy Chicago and thousands of community activists in what may be one of the most colorful demonstrations in days of protests marking the G8 meeting at Camp David and the NATO Summit in Chicago.

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    99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County

    by Mary Bottari — April 29, 2012 - 6:27am
  • Topics: Corporate Campaigns, Activism, BanksterUSA

    • This spring, in coordinated actions across the country, retirees who lost their pensions, families whose homes are underwater, students with impossible debt, the unemployed and underemployed, family farmers, immigrants, vets and more will be knocking on the doors of corporate boardrooms, holding CEOs of major American firms responsible for crashing the economy then turning their backs on their fellow Americans. With hundreds of shareholders on the inside and thousands of folks on the outside, the largest shareholder demonstrations in U.S. history are underway and spreading across the land.

    Their goal is nothing short of transformational: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.

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    Stress Testing Tim Geithner

    by Mary Bottari — January 26, 2012 - 11:58am
  • Topics: Banking, BanksterUSA, Corporations

    • Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in the State of the Union this week President Obama struck some of his most populist themes yet. He wants to tax millionaires, bring back manufacturing and prosecute the big banks. He touted his Wall Street reforms saying the big banks are "no longer allowed to make risky bets with customers deposits" and "the rest of us aren't bailing you out ever again."

    But are we safe from the next big bank bailout? Many experts are dubious and Wednesday the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen decided to test the theory in the most direct way possible. They used the administrative law process to formally petition the nation's top bank regulators to move swiftly to break up Bank of America (BofA) asserting in their petition: "The bank poses a grave threat to U.S. financial stability by any reasonable definition of that phrase."

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    Scott Walker’s Plutonomy: An Economy for the One Percent

    by Mary Bottari — January 24, 2012 - 8:32am
  • Topics: Banking, BanksterUSA, Corporations, Real Economy Project

    • While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin's 72 counties marched into the state's election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Walker was nowhere to be found.

    At the hour petitions were being deposited on January 17, Mother Jones revealed that Walker was scheduled to attend a high-dollar fundraiser in the heart of the New York's financial district at 339 Park Avenue -- the towering headquarters for global financial giant CitiGroup. The $5,000 per couple fundraiser was hosted by none other than Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former CEO of AIG.

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    Wisconsin Supreme Court Ethics Issues May Lead D.A. to Re-Open Collective Bargaining Suit

    by Brendan Fischer — December 23, 2011 - 8:36am
  • Topics: BanksterUSA, Election Protection, Ethics, Labor, Wisconsin Protests

    • Following reports that Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman received tens of thousands of dollars of free legal services from the law firm that defended Governor Scott Walker's collective bargaining bill, the District Attorney who brought the original challenge may ask the Court to hear the case again without the justice's participation. Gableman has faced a series of ethical issues since taking office.

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    Spinning the Occupation

    by Anne Landman — December 20, 2011 - 9:04am
  • Topics: Activism, BanksterUSA, Corporations, Economy, Real Economy Project

    • As winter sets in and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) encampments contract, the three-month old movement continues to have a big impact on the campaign trail. President Obama as well as some GOP candidates have adopted OWS concerns and language, while big bank lobbyists and GOP spinmeisters work hard to hold the line, defending U.S. economic institutions and the American "free market" system against what they fear could be a broad-based populist uprising.

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    JPMorgan Chase Greedwashes Reputation with "American Giving Awards"

    by Anne Landman — December 15, 2011 - 3:34pm
  • Topics: BanksterUSA, Corporations, Economy, Ethics

    • As the New York Times media reporter, Brian Stelter, noted on Saturday, December 9, NBC agreed to broadcast a two-hour television show fully funded and sponsored by JPMorgan Chase called the "American Giving Awards." The program showcased solely recipients of charitable donations from Chase, featured commercials for Chase and reminded viewers constantly throughout the broadcast that the entire event was "presented by Chase."

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