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Corporate State
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Which Is More Terrifying: Google or Facebook?
Relentlessly, the two companies are pushing toward a dystopian future in which privacy is null and we wear social networks on our faces.
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$25 Million Bank of America Settlement Amounts to Wrist-Slap
Two settlements between Bank of America and state and federal regulators over actions during the financial crisis challenge conventional assumptions about Republicans, Democrats and Wall Street.
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Grad School Is a Debt Machine
America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years—along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers.
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Bunny Mellon Was the Last Living Link to Plutocracy 1.0
Dead at 103, Mellon's wealth spanned the period of America’s original plutocrats – the gang that ushered in the Great Depression – and our contemporary plutocrats who gave us the Great Recession.
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Planet Plutocrat: The Crony-Capitalism Index
Through rent-seeking, graft and everyday corruption, billionaires in crony sectors have had a great century so far.
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Lawsuit Alleges Wells Fargo Systematically Fabricated Foreclosure Docs
A federal lawsuit may have unearthed a smoking gun about systematic document fabrication at Wells Fargo.
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"Economics of the 1%": Exposing Econfakers and Alchemists of Finance
In his new book, John F. Weeks looks at society caught in the deceptive spell of neoclassical thinking – what he calls "fakeeconomics" – but suggests that a turnaround might be possible.
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We're FedUp!: The People Need to Take Ownership of the Production of Money
Sovereign, debt-free currency is our demand – because it's time to return to a transparent financial system that is accountable to the people.
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How the States Are Trying to Rein in Dark Money
The Supreme Court has eviscerated our already thin federal campaign finance rules, so reformers have turned to the states — the “laboratories of democracy” — to do better.
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Which U.S. Corporate Interests Backed the Ukraine Putsch
Giant corporations, from Cargill to Chevron, see Ukraine as a potential “gold mine” of profits from agricultural and energy exploitation.
