The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Crimes Were Committed—Before, during and after the crisis, Financial Felonies abounded
Here's Why No One Went to Jail After the 2008 Financial Crisis. To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question.
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Banks Actually Want To Make It Easier, Not Harder, To Launder Money
Instead of getting down to the business of ripping off clients for profit, the world’s largest banks now want to do less to stop drug lords, tax cheats, and terrorists from moving money through their institutions.
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U.S. Cities May Be Taking Banks to Court For the Foreclosure Crisis
From L.A. to Miami to Providence, families who lost their homes weren’t the only ones hurt by the foreclosure crisis – so there’s an argument to be made that they shouldn’t be the only ones who can go after the lenders.
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Merchandised Consumer Democracy: The Cause of the Economic Cancer in the United States
A socially democratic citizens’ revolution to secure a new and just government and economy is an immediate necessity.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
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We Don't Need Your Dirty Business: Santa Cruz Washes Its Hands of Felon Banks
While big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.
