Overdrawn and Overworked: How Banks Are (Still) Screwing Consumers With Overdraft Fees

Overdraft fees are similar to payday loans and they perform like credit cards, but worse. So why hasn't the government cracked down on bank fee manipulation to save consumers from these predatory activities?

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One Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part III

In the current age of austerity, the question remains: how much devastation will result from the influence wielded by the BIS and the decisions that it made?

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A Bank To Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank For International Settlements, Part II

The idea for an international bank had already been explored to some extent by people like the economist John Maynard Keynes. But the idea for the bank truly took off during the Young Conference in 1929, when the Allies were attempting to exact Germany’s reparations debts for WWI.

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One Bank to Rule Them All: Exposing the Bank for International Settlements, Part I

While its purpose has changed and evolved over the decades, the BIS has always been a club for central bankers – one that has aided some countries more than others.

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The College Bureaucracy: How Education Forgot the Students and Became A Business

University bureaucracies are furthering the neo-liberalization of education, which is now viewed as a business.

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Hey Students: Damn The Debt! Lessons and Tactics From Past Debt Resistance Movements

The student debt strike isn't the first time debt resistance movements have taken hold across the U.S. – and the lessons we learn from prior movements can well be applied to today.

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Cash Cops: How Civil Forfeiture Enriched U.S. Law Enforcement

The very people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones who profit from ignoring it.

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Foreign Interests Play Key Role in the Central African Republic Conflict

Oil is a central factor driving international involvement – from Chad, France and the U.S. – in the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Central African Republic.

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Colonialism, Coups and Conflict: Understanding Today's Violence in the Central African Republic

While many media outlets are discussing the sectarian violence and general upheaval right now in the Central African Republic, few point out the historical context – that France and the U.S. bear implication as well.

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Paying Up, Bottoming Out—Why the Payday Loan Crisis Must Be Stopped

Consumer watchdog groups, payday borrowers and victims of payday theft need to come together to end the practice that creates a never-ending cycle of debt.

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