Wall Street’s Frightening New Plan To Become America’s Landlord

Banks, hedge funds and private equity firms have been amassing real estate holdings for a few years now in the wake of the foreclosure crisis, but their plan for wringing profit out of the rental market is just starting to draw real scrutiny.

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TransCanada Pipeline Explosion Shuts Off Gas For 4,000 Residents In Sub-Zero Temperatures

As TransCanada has been pushing for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Venture Capitalist Compares 'War On 1 Percent' To Nazi Anti-Semitism

Yes, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the novel, "Sex and the Single Zillionaire"—who is worth $8 billion—really said that.

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Poll: Majority Believe Income Gap Grew in a Decade, Want to Tax the Rich

A Pew poll shows two-thirds of Americans think the income gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has grown over the past decade, and most favor a tax increase on the nation’s wealthy.

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Exposed: Leaks Reveal 22,000 Tax Haven Clients in China and Hong Kong

China has emerged as a leading source of new offshore clients.

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Just Don't Talk About Power: Exposing the Davos Class

A new report by the Transnational Institute makes clear that the widening gulf between rich and poor is closely tied to an economic system that favors corporate rights over human rights.

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Crashing the Party at Davos: It's Time to Seize Power on the Mountaintop

Humanity does have a chance at survival: it just lies at much lower altitudes in the social hierarchy than the crowd now patting themselves on the back at the World Economic Form in Davos.

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Confronting the Specter of Corporate and Police Spying

Corporations would like activists and others to remain in the dark about the extent to which they are keeping tabs on their opponents and critics, but there are cracks in the wall.

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For the First Time, Majority of Congress is Worth $1M or More

Financial-disclosure forms show that a majority of Congress members are millionaires, and experts say there is a growing concern about the disconnect between lawmakers and average Americans.

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Davos Report: World's 85 Richest have Same Wealth As All of Bottom 50 Percent

The world's elite have rigged laws in their own favor, undermining democracy and creating a chasm of inequality across the globe.

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