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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The Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
To buy Greece's bonds as collateral, the European Central Bank is first asking the country to sell off its public assets, slash salaries and pensions, drastically increase taxes and dismantle its social services – all to save the banking system.
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Swimming with the Sharks: How Goldman Sachs Indebted California's Schools
In 2008, after collecting millions of dollars in fees to help California sell its bonds, Goldman urged its bigger clients to place investment bets against those bonds – a scam ensnaring future generations in mountains of debt.
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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland
Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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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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Surprise, Goldman Sachs: Public Bank of North Dakota Just Outperformed Wall Street
New figures reveal that public banks are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half – and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.
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Carmen Segarra: The Whistleblower of Wall Street
The former employee of the New York Federal Reserve was fired after she refused to tone down a scathing report on conflicts of interest within Goldman Sachs.
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Detroit's Water Shutoffs – And a Rising Resistance Movement
A few days after thousands marched on downtown Detroit last weekend, the city suspended mass water shutoffs for 15 days – leaving more than 15,000 households already disconnected.
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Wrestling the Vampire Squid: Why Goldman Sachs Still Rules the World
Goldman is part of the political elite, protected by the political system and media.
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Taibbi: The Vampire Squid Strikes Again – With Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever.
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Exposed: Outrage In Denmark As Goldman Sachs Buys National Energy Company
Denmark agreed Thursday to sell 19 percent of its state owned energy company, DONG Energy, to U.S. investment giant Goldman Sachs – setting off a storm of protest and the resignation of the Socialist People's Party from the coalition government.
