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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Dark Matter: Too-Big-To-Fail Hibernates in Opaque Derivatives Markets
Much of the "over-the-counter" derivatives market remains outside the radar of regulators, who are supposed to monitor the risks it poses.
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Here's What Wall Street Reform Looks Like Under A President Sanders
Breaking up big banks, reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, restructuring credit rating agencies, and holding bankers accountable for their crimes would begin to address some of the most relevant issues.
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E.U. Showdown As Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid
The question is not why the Greek people are rising up to reject barbarous austerity measures – but what took them so long.
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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?
