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Wall Street’s Stranglehold on the Economy Is Choking Americans (moneymorning.com)
America's Founding Fathers were afraid of any concentration of power in the republic. They were particularly afraid that banking interests could hijack our fledgling democracy. And yet today, 234... More
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Restarting Financial Reform (www.nytimes.com)
In calling for new limits on the size and activities of big banks, President Obama has given the effort to enact serious financial regulatory reform something it lacked: a rational starting point.
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Obama to Wall Street: "You want to fight? I am ready." (www.banksterusa.org)
The President took on Wall Street Thursday. Stocks plummeted, consumer activists cheered. Now we are talking.
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Why Can't We Get Anyone to Ask a Wall St. CEO the Hard Questions? | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
(www.alternet.org)
Articles and blogs are flooding the Web, summarizing and dissecting the opening Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's chat with the four CEOs presiding over the strongest (read: luckiest recipients of... More
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Bank CEOs to testify before panel seeking to examine crisis (www.marketwatch.com)
What precisely caused the financial crisis, and what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again?
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Bipartisan Group To Hold Hearings on Financial Crisis (blogs.wsj.com)
A bipartisan commission formed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis is scheduled to hold its first public hearings in January, part of a series that could influence pending... More
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Credit Card Delinquencies Expected To Slow In 2010
(airamerica.com)
Consumers are expected to further improve their credit management in 2010, but unemployment will hamper the efforts of many Americans to make their credit card payments on time.
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Obama Uses Policy Grab-Bag To Fight Recession (airamerica.com)
President Barack Obama, battling the worst downturn since FDR's time, has put together a grab-bag program that borrows a little from Roosevelt but much more closely resembles the approach taken by... More
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Time to Audit the Fed
(open.salon.com)
Two key lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee, Reps. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Ron Paul (R-TX), are pushing to authorize a full, comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve. The plan has... More
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Treasury Finally Focuses TARP On Small Banks And Credit
(airamerica.com)
At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the Treasury. Taxpayers won't recoup the full sum of the... More
Submitted 3 months ago by lizchapman | 0 Comments |
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