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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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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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The People's Lawyer: Fighting Against Foreclosure Fraud and Courts' Abuse of Power
"I think this economic collapse was carefully calculated as a means to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the wealthy."
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Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did To Baltimore
Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank and Deutsche Bank manipulated “interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of loans and investments” purportedly used to fund Baltimore and other cities.
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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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The Bailout Next Time: Making the Bankers Squeal
During the financial crisis, the losses were so severe that every major investment bank on Wall Street should have collapsed. Will we learn from the corporate-government heist that enabled them to survive?
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How Redistribution to the Rich Has Furthered Poverty and Crushed the Middle Class
Because of the housing crisis and recession, the median family net worth dropped 40 percent between 2007 and 2010, while the richest Americans regained all their losses and began an even steeper climb to the top.
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Resisting Foreclosure: Rising Up for a Dream Called Home
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener shows how black Americans have historically been dispossessed of home, property and adequate work as a de facto economic policy.
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After Crashing Bear Stearns, Mortgage Executives Have Plum Jobs on Wall Street
The executives in charge of mortgage securities at the failed investment house are now at JPMorgan, Goldman and Bank of America.
