Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Why the Only Answer is to Break Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks
If the Fed's latest proposal to water down the Volcker Rule goes through, we’ll be nearly back to where we were before the crash of 2008.
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Rebel Cities 5: Bologna Again Takes Center Stage Resisting Italian Fascism
Coalizione Civica (Civic Coalition) is challenging Italy's far-right lurch, pushing radical municipalist values such as rights to the city, ecological sustainability and social inclusion.
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Paving Way for Next Taxpayer-Funded Wall Street Bailout, Trump Fed Unveils Plan to Gut Volcker Rule
Ripping apart the central piece of Dodd-Frank will unleash a torrent of gambling by big banks and dramatically heighten the risk of another financial meltdown.
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Hospitality Workers In Vegas Threaten to Strike for a New ‘New Deal’
Union workers representing 50,000 bartenders, housekeepers, room attendants, cocktail and restaurant servers, hotel porters, chefs, kitchen staff and cashiers are prepared to strike on June 1.
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The Coming Collapse
Once the economy crashes and the rage across the country explodes into a firestorm, the political freaks will appear, ones that will make Trump look sagacious and benign.
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Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op
When employees make decisions and advocate for themselves, good things happen – like, when the business is profitable, they share in those profits rather than see the money doled out to shareholders.
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Blackstone, BlackRock, or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work
California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008.
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Is the Postal Banking Movement Being Too Careful to Succeed?
Failure of imagination at the top undermines hard work at the grassroots. Because at the end of the day, a people’s banking system strikes bipartisan terror in the hearts of the elites.
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Shocker! Tax Cuts in Hand, CEOs Admit They Won't Invest Record Profits in Worker Wage Hikes
"Of course the GOP tax scam didn't help working people. CEOs would rather pay themselves than pay us."
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Republicans Come Out Swinging Against Military Family Education
GOP lawmakers feel fine about asking citizens to fight and die for their country – but not about providing a proper education for those people's children.