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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 Detroit's "Bankruptcy" Distracts From Attack on Constitution
Detroit is the victim of dishonest politicians colluding with banks and other corporate predators, and we are now witnessing the late stages of an extended municipal lynching — the natural expression of contemporary American capitalism.
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88% of Congress On Gas Industry Payroll As Campaign Donations Hit Record Level
A new report shows politicians' campaign cash from the natural gas industry has soared 231% in states that frack, and more than doubled even in the states that don't. Fact: seven of eight U.S. Congress members are on the gas industry's payroll.
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Moving Far Right, Google Funds Grover Norquist, Heritage Action, ALEC, Anti-Gov Groups
Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers.
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E.U. Imposes Record €1.7 Billion Fines on Major International Banks Over Rate-Rigging
The fines issued by the European Commission mark the latest to be levied on banks and financial institutions for making profits or masking their problems by fraudulently rigging the rates that reflect the cost of lending money to each other.
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Revealed: ALEC Seeks Legislation to Punish Solar Power Users as "Freeriders"
The alliance of corporations and ultra-right activists known as the American Legislative Exchange Council is attempting to penalize homeowners who install solar panels on their houses and to block clean energy developments across the U.S.
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How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists
Collaborating with such an insidious firm is bad enough, but defending that collaborator in spite of all the evidence that’s been made public is irresponsible and potentially hazardous to activists in the long run.
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Woman with cancer Loses Fresno Home in Questionable Mortgage Deal
Marsha Kilgore was taken to the cleaners by GMAC bank, and evicted while terminally ill.
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Global Power Project: The Group of Thirty and Its Methods of Financial Governance
What makes the G30 so important is not only that they are taken seriously by policymakers and market "participants" – but that the very individuals making the recommendations are in positions of power to directly implement or support those recommendations.
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Revealed: Blackstone Group Exploited Foreclosure Crisis And Seized Homes Cheap
The world's largest private equity firm has amassed an unprecedented rental empire by buying foreclosed homes at knock-off prices —from Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta to brick-faced bungalows in Chicago to Spanish revivals in Phoenix.
