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Don’t Be Duped by Corporate Spin: Regulation Protects Us All
The media must be the public's watchdog on regulatory issues, not a conduit for corporate anti-regulatory spin.
Nobody in the White House Is Part of “the Resistance”
They support cuts to billionaires’ taxes, deregulating corporations and feeding the military-industrial complex.
Five Financial Consequences of Trump Getting His Hands on the Economy
The rest of us are going to have to face the consequences of Donald Trump getting his hands on the economy.
Renegade Capitalism: How Our Economy Was Designed to Plunder You
U.S. protectionism violates capitalism's free-market principle.
New Banking Deregulation Could Lead to More Lending Discrimination
The US hasn't learned from the 2008 global financial crisis.
How Trump’s Deregulatory Push Is Harming Workers, Muzzling EPA Scientists and Unleashing Pollution
As President Trump’s own chief of staff, John Kelly, calls his boss “uninformed,” we will look at how Trump is transforming the nation by slashing taxes on the rich, …
Financialization Has Turned the Global Economy Into a House of Cards: An Interview With Gerald Epstein
We not only must re-regulate finance, we must develop more public options in finance, says economist Gerald Epstein.
Trump Cuts Regulations as Oceanic Dead Zones Release Massive Amounts of Methane
A new study has found the source of an enormous Pacific methane pool, uncovering disastrous news for the planet.
What’s Happening in Brazil? Exactly What the Coup Leaders Said Would Happen
The events unfolding in Brazil today are predictably consistent with the intentions of the right-wing coup leaders.
Wolves of Wall Street: Financialization and American Inequality
It's no secret by now that the recent spike in American inequality is driven in large part by “financialization,” the growing scale of the financial sector relative to the …