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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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Handing Bankers a Win-Win, Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts – and Bail-Ins
The new deal may be illegal under rules of the E.U. Parliament, but it is being rushed through to lock taxpayer and depositor liability into place before the dire state of Eurozone banks is exposed.
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The Stone that Brings Down Goliath?
The city of Richmond, Calif., has gone where no other city has dared: threatening to take underwater mortgages by eminent domain from Wall Street banks and renegotiating them on behalf of homeowners.
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How the Credit Card Gravy Train Is Running Over You
The credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees.
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Abandoning Wall Street and Creating a Public Bank for the City of Los Angeles
A Bank of the City of Los Angeles would not compete with commercial banks but would partner with them, using its tax revenue deposits to create interest-free credit for lending programs that go toward funding city projects.
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From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer
The state cannot solve its budget problems by slashing services that have already been cut to the bone or raising sales taxes that hurt the poor far more than the rich.
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100 Years Is Enough: It's Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance. Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed?
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Amend the Fed: We Need a Central Bank that Serves Main Street
December 23 marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, prompting growing calls to audit or end the Fed. At the least Congress needs to amend it — modifying the Federal Reserve Act to allow the central bank to carry out its mandates.
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Why Monsanto and Trans-Pacific Partnership Equal Global Food Dominance
World food control has nearly been achieved by reducing plant diversity through GMO seeds made by transnational corporations. If the Trans-Pacific Partnership passes, our food, health, environment and financial system will belong fully to the corporations.
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Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-Known Model
Established in 1949, Costa Rica's four public banks have remained open and in public hands in spite of enormous pressure by the IMF and the U.S. to privatize them.
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Ellen Brown: The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
After five years of belt-tightening, the Irish people are realizing that their assets are paying for the mistakes of the financial sector.
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Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Posted 6 days 13 hours ago
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
