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A Homeowner Fights Fraudulent Evictions and the Michigan Foreclosure King
KathyJo Torrenga and her husband decided to challenge their foreclosure on their own, learning as much as they could about mortgage securitization and the damages caused by it.
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Obama Issues Rules to Crack Down on Overseas Corporate Tax Evasion
The executive action on Monday hits back at inversion schemes employed by U.S. corporations that stash taxable cash in their subsidiaries overseas.
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Raking In On Rents: The Housing Crisis Begins Anew
Americans need to say no now to this new scheme, lest we allow the past mortgage crisis to become a current rent fiasco.
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Anti-Coal Campaigners Continue to Win in the Northwest
Coal transportation projects would see dozens of trains filled with Powder River Basin coal — one of the world’s largest deposits of the fuel — wind through hundreds of American communities every day.
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U.K. Report Shows Shocking Rise In Human Rights Violations
The 2014 Human Rights Risk Atlas reveals the extent that rural and indigenous workers globally are facing land grabs and displacement as civil rights get sacrificed for low-cost resources and labor.
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Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change
Heirs to the Standard Oil fortune join a campaign that will withdraw a total of $50 billion from fossil fuels, including from tar sands funds.
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Too Big Has Failed – And Wall Street Is Teetering Once More Toward Collapse
Rent-backed securities are the direct descendants of the mortgage-backed securities that crashed the economy in 2008.
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Income Inequality Hurts State Tax Revenues As 2013 Census Reports Historic Wealth Gap
The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue as the very rich shield their income from taxes.
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Charles Koch Foundation Offered Florida St. University Millions to Teach Libertarian Economics
Newly revealed documents offer rare insight into how Koch’s philanthropic operation prods academics to preach a free market gospel in exchange for cash.
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Ticket to Insolvency: The Fed's Bizarre New Rules to Asset-Strip Local Government
The latest misguided move by regulators could result in serious collateral damage to cities – maybe serious enough to finally propel them into bankruptcy.
