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How Bank of America Execs Hid Losses — in Their Own Words
When Bank of America announced it was buying Merrill Lynch in September 2008, bank execs told their shareholders that the merger might hurt earnings a touch. It didn't turn …
A Monetary Policy for the 99%: Twelve-Year-Old Reformer Goes Viral
Monetary reform - the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation's money - has rarely even made the news, so this is a first. Either …
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Snarling Banks
Jim Hightower: Thank you, Supreme Court, for making money play possible with your Citizens United decision. Now bankers are going to intimidate officeholders with the threat to put unlimited …
Dysfunctional Banking Sector Helps Keep Iraq in Economic Shambles
Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers Baghdad - The shelves are packed with imported goods at Baghdad's thriving Warda supermarket, and customers can barely move their shopping carts in the narrow …
Four Simple Steps for Taking Your Money Out of the Vampire Banks
Can't pitch a tent at Zuccotti Park? Not to worry. There's something meaningful you can do to stand up to vampire banks that bleed the economy — and your …
Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?