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Weekly Audit: Crashing the Corporate Christmas Party
(www.themediaconsortium.org)
While Wall Street will ring in the new year with huge bonuses and taxpayer-fueled profits, there is little holiday cheer for the workers whose tax dollars funded the bank bailouts. Although bank stock... More
Submitted 2 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Citigroup to break away from TARP bailout (www.upi.com)
Financial giant Citigroup said it reached an agreement with the U.S. Treasury Department that clears the way for the bank to exit federal bailout programs.
Submitted 3 months ago by gregplaysdrums | 0 Comments |
Obama: I Didn't Run For Office To Help 'Fat Cat Bankers' (www.huffingtonpost.com)
President Obama takes aim at "fat cat bankers" and their aggressive lobbying efforts to defeat financial reform in a 60 Minutes interview.
Submitted 3 months ago by gregplaysdrums | 0 Comments |
Barney Frank Wants Bailout Interest Payments To Go To Unemployed Homeowners
(airamerica.com)
Rep. Barney Frank said Monday he is pushing a proposal to use some of the interest the government collects from the financial industry bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay... More
Submitted 4 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Saying 'No' to Corporate America
(open.salon.com)
By proposing financial reforms that won’t curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unacceptably weak response to our enormous financial crisis. If voters don’t demand that their... More
Submitted 4 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
The Battle Over Bailout | The American Prospect
(www.prospect.org)
Sitting in his office, Rep. Brad Sherman does not look like an angry man. Leaning back and rubbing his stomach, the Californian calmly explains his concerns about the Treasury Department's plan to... More
Submitted 4 months ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: We Need a 'People's Bailout'
(open.salon.com)
The economic free-fall is finally slowing down, although nobody expects the recovery to be very pleasant. Job losses and foreclosures are expected to increase well into next year. But even if our... More
Submitted 5 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Banks Take Over the G20, and Their Own Bailout
(www.progressive.org)
At the G20 meeting this week in Pittsburgh, world leaders will take up financial regulation that might stave off future meltdowns, such as the crisis that hit when some of the world's largest banks... More
Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Beck the Bailout Booster
(www.washingtonmonthly.com)
When it comes to right-wing populism, last year's bailout of the financial industry holds a unique place in the panoply of conservative complaints. Despite having come from a conservative Republican... More
Submitted 5 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Homeowners Fight Foreclosure in Minneapolis
(lauraflanders.firedoglake.com)
Last week police in Minneapolis arrested seven people outside of the foreclosed home of Rosemary Williams who was forced to give up her home after a monthlong sit-in. We recently spoke to Williams and... More
Submitted 5 months ago by erinconsortium | 0 Comments |
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