Colonized by Corporations: When WTO Means "We're Taking Over"

After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again.

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May Day: Income Disparity Grows As Corporations Spend Millions To Cover It Up

Corporations have spent more than $1 billion lobbying against the Dodd-Frank Act. Three years later, the Act has yet to be enforced — and lobbyists are still winning.

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CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law

Almost three years after Congress ordered public companies to reveal actual CEO-to-worker pay ratios under the Dodd-Frank law, the numbers remain unknown.

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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks

The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?

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Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status of Derivatives

Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.

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