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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Global Power Project, Part 5: Banking on Influence With Goldman Sachs
We examined a total of 83 individuals at Goldman Sachs, including executives, members of the board of directors and several advisory boards, to uncover their connections within some of the world's powerful institutions.
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Review: The Billionaire's Apprentice and the Gaming of Wall Street
Anita Raghavan has written a tour-de-force book that captures the realities of race and unfettered greed in contemporary America.
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This 4th of July, Remembering Theodore Dreiser and What "Radically American" Means
Unlike his fiction, Dreiser’s political prose is less well known. But today's conditions of corruption and inequality again, as in his time, demand us to be “radically American”: a term that Dreiser used to describe himself.
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Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Former Employees Say
The bank's employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure.
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The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
Regulators' complicity in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal is a weak point for the global banking cartel—which, like Al Capone's network of gangsters, may finally be on the way out.
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We Are Players in the Game of Revolution
A people's democracy on a global scale is within reach -- if we have the courage to seize it.
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How Do You Run Goldman Sachs Out of Town?
Oakland's city council is trying.
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Cash Hoarding, Tax Evasion and the Corporate Coup
With record-breaking profits and record-low taxes, corporations around the world have been hoarding record-high amounts of cash while finding legal loopholes to pay less, or none, of their taxes.
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Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Swiss researchers have found that of the world's 43,000 transnational corporations, a "super-entity" of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, collectively constitute 40% of the total wealth in the entire global network.
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Corporate Gold on the Fiscal Cliff
Big money buys big influence, which is why the financiers of Wall Street never truly experience regime change.
