Wall Street
How Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt: Call for Breaking Up the Biggest Banks, and Resurrecting Glass-Steagall
October 19, 2012 7:00 pm-
Dimon in the Rough: How Wall Street Aims to Keep U.S. Regulators Out of Its Global Betting ParlorThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the main regular of derivatives (bets on bets), wants to extend Dodd-Frank...by Robert Reich on June 22, 2012 1:00 pm -
Cameron? Non. Sarkozy? Non. Austerity? Non.Forget liberté, égalité, fraternité… the cry in France and across the UK this past week was Non, Non, Non...by Denis G Campbell on May 9, 2012 5:15 am -
Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas PumpGas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President...by Robert Reich on March 17, 2012 2:45 pm
Posts Tagged ‘Wall Street’
What Do Abused Dogs and Laid-Off Workers Have in Common?
In fairness to Mitt Romney, on the matter of his poor dog riding atop his deluxe car on a long drive, Romney suggests his dog enjoys this. Even assuming this is true, what does it tell us that on the trip in question the poor dog became ill, and Romney cleaned him up, put him back [...]
Most Important Economic Speech of Obama’s Presidency
The President’s speech last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of connecting the dots, laying out the reasons behind our economic and political crises, and asserting a willingness to take on the powerful and [...]
The First Amendment Upside Down. Why We Must Occupy Democracy
You’ve been seeing this across the country … Americans assaulted, clubbed, dragged, pepper-sprayed … Why? For exercising their right to free speech and assembly — protesting the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top. And what’s Washington’s response? Nothing. In fact, Congress’s so-called “supercommittee” just disbanded because Republicans refuse to raise [...]
The Monday Line: We Don’t Need Empty Promises, More Attack Adverts or Talking Heads
We need courageous leaders and we’re far from getting them because the political system is dysfunctional and, perhaps, broken beyond repair. It is so serious that a vast majority of voters have thrown their hands up in hopelessness that anything can be done to change the vitriolic nature of Washington or Westminster. Having seen the [...]
Wall Street is Still Out of Control: Why Obama Should Call for Glass-Steagall and a Breakup of Big Banks
Next week President Obama travels to Wall Street where he’ll demand – in light of the Street’s continuing antics since the bailout, as well as its role in watering-down the Volcker rule – that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected and big banks be broken up. I’m kidding. But it would be a smart move — [...]
I Will Stand with Occupy Wall Street
We are the 99 percent of Americans in a blessed land that belongs to us all, and is not a property to be owned by the few who enrich themselves at the expense of the many. With Bank of America the latest bank to grind its heels on the necks of patriots who paid for its bailout, [...]
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