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Jeffrey Sachs: How I would lead the World Bank as president - The Washington Post
Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2012 8:50 AM EST (The Washington Post)
How the FCC Can Take the Money Out of Politics
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:02 AM EST (Truthdig)
The Federal Communications Commission should forbid television broadcasters from charging for campaign ads, and we, the public, should peacefully demonstrate outside the FCC offices at 445 12th Street SW, in Washington, D.C., until it does so.
How Republicans Could Still Succeed At Privatizing Medicare
Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:06 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
Republicans may be backing off their famously toxic plan by Paul Ryan to privatize Medicare, but they’ve doubled down on the broader concept and are taking strategic steps to get there over time.
Scott cuts money for vets, kids — but not lobbyist - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:08 AM EST (MiamiHerald.com)
Call it the allocation of the immaculate conception — an unrequested $1.5 million surreptitiously folded into legislation even while $3.8 billion was being ripped from the state budget with brutal cuts in education and infrastructure and state worker pensions and programs …
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War | Op-Eds & Columns
Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:10 PM EST ()
The public should realize that “generational warfare” is an agenda that was deliberately designed by the 1 percent to distract the rest of us from the class war that they have been successfully waging over the last three decades.
David Coates: Banker Power Trumping Democratic Power: The Crisis on Two Continents
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:09 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
We live in troubled and ironic times. The times are certainly troubled.
Insight: The Wall Street disconnect | Reuters
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:19 AM EST (Reuters)
John Paulson, the hedge-fund trader who famously made billions betting on the collapse of the housing market, was threatened by the demonstrators with a march on his Upper East Side home in New York last month.
At OpEdNews: Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:34 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
Henry Ford said, "It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the beginning …
Bank Of America Dumps $75 Trillion In Derivatives On U.S. Taxpayers With Federal Approval - Seeking Alpha
Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:41 PM EST (Energy Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
The FDIC opposed the move, but there is nothing the FDIC can do, except file a petition for a writ of mandamus in court, against the Federal Reserve, seeking a declaration that the approval was illegal.
Occupy the Mortgage Lenders - Simon Johnson - Project Syndicate
Seeded on Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:59 AM EDT ()
Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and securitization behavior that was central to the financial crisis – and to the loss of more than e …
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