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Corporate State
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When Predatory Equity Hit the Big Apple – And What It Tells Us About the Future
Things are heating up inside Wall Street’s new rental empire.
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Will McCutcheon Be Rallying Cry for Movement to "End the Rule of Money"?
The legitimacy of the U.S. government is now in question. It is up to us to use McCutcheon to energize the movement against money-corruption of the government and economy.
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How Taxpayers Subsidize America’s Biggest Employer and Richest Family
Walmart and the Walton family receive tax breaks and taxpayer subsidies estimated at more than $7.8 billion a year – that is enough money to hire 105,000 new public school teachers.
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The Global Banking Game Is Rigged – And the FDIC Is Suing
Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps – which are now a $426 trillion business.
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All the Presidents' Bankers: How A Century of Wall Street Financiers Purchased Democracy
In All the Presidents' Bankers, Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving United States financial policy.
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Corporate Profits and the Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent
New research finds that richest 0.1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of the pie, dramatically expanding their portion of the country's wealth in three decades.
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The Bailout Next Time: Making the Bankers Squeal
During the financial crisis, the losses were so severe that every major investment bank on Wall Street should have collapsed. Will we learn from the corporate-government heist that enabled them to survive?
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The Job Apocalypse That's Coming to America
Offshoring and increased automation have already cost Americans millions of jobs – and with increasing computing capacity expanding the abilities of machines, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Does $5.1 Billion Andarko Settlement Compensate 85 Years Of Poisoning U.S. Communities?
With cleanup costs at 2,000 sites nationwide and payment claims from more than 8,000 people, the settlement amounted to a slap on the wrist for the energy giant.
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Shell Oil Ignored Arctic Safety Warnings "Partly to Avoid Tax"
The U.S. Coast Guard says Shell flouted warnings and moved its Kulluk drill ship – which ran aground in December 2012 – in a reckless bid to avoid paying extra taxes.
