The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Another Bad Idea: Regulators Chip Away at the Volcker Rule
By revising the Volcker Rule, a centerpiece of the 2010 Dodd-Frank act, the feds are pushing financial regulation in a direction that should worry everyone.
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Did Shell's Failure to Disclose Climate Risks Break the Law?
Congressmen who have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Exxon now request a similar probe of Shell.
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Act Out! [51] - How to lose a plutocracy in 60 days, March madness on the front lines
This week, grab your calendars and let's head to the front lines where we're talking everything from women's rights to Saudi ties to spring break.
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Elizabeth Warren and Allies Delay Obama's S.E.C. Pick, Citing Deep Corporate Ties
Keir Gumbs is a corporate attorney with Covington & Burling and has links to the American Petroleum Institute – he also gives advice to companies on how to dodge scrutiny from shareholder activists.
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Wall Street's Highest Executives at Goldman, Treasury and FED Implicated By Citigroup Whistleblower
Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin are among the corporate executives / government leaders threatened by Richard Bowen's truth-telling, which is why the former Citibank Executive's story of criminal injustice hasn't made it out.
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JPMorgan Hit With $920 Million Fines for $6 Billion London Whale Derivatives Scandal
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $920 million in penalties to U.S. and U.K. regulators over the "unsafe and unsound practices" that led to its $6.2 billion London Whale losses last year.
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Dodd-Frank Action: SEC To Require Transparency On CEO/Employee Pay Gap
The Securities and Exchange Commission will soon follow through with an executive pay transparency requirement as part of the Dodd-Frank law, requiring Fortune 500 companies to publish comparative salaries of its CEOs and average workers.
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Taibbi: 16 Major Finance Institutions Allegedly Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
A whistleblower complaint has been filed to the SEC identifying some of the world's biggest banks and hedge funds as alleged early recipients of key economic data from the news/business wire.
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Executive Excess 2013: Bailed Out, Booted and Busted
Nearly 40 percent of the highest-paid CEOs in recent decades eventually needed to be rescued, fired or jailed. This analysis reveals widespread poor performance within America’s elite CEO circles.
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U.S. Executive Pay Soars As "The Outrageous Has Become the Everyday"
According to figures released last week, 38% of the top-paid CEOs of U.S. companies over the past two decades were fired or headed companies that were either bailed out by taxpayers or forced to pay significant fraud-related fines.
