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Let’s Stop Wall Street Predators From Banking on Displacement
It's time to impose a speculation and vacancy tax on the real estate corporations destroying our neighborhoods.
We Already Have a Wealth Tax. It’s Just Paid to Hedge Fund Managers.
Hedge fund managers are scaremongering about a Warren or Sanders presidency. Really, they're worried about being taxed.
Trump’s Inner Circle Used the 2008 Housing Crash to Get Rich
Much of the so-called recovery is a result of large private equity firms buying up foreclosed homes.
Wall Street Is Killing Local Newspapers
Predatory investors are trying to put a price tag on our free press.
Documentary Exposes Wall Street Power Behind Global Gentrification Boom
“PUSH” reveals how the marriage of private equity and real estate is driving the current housing crisis.
Wall Street Billionaires Set to Mingle With Mike Pence at Financial Conference
The conference gathers profiteers tied to some of the gravest problems humanity faces today.
From Kentucky Miners to Toys ‘R’ Us Employees, Workers Confront Corporate Greed
It is worker organizing, not CEO platitudes, that is forging a path toward a more equitable future.
Move Over Wall Street, People’s Banks Are Coming to Replace You
Public banking will bring democracy and accountability to the world of finance.
These Three Bills Could Help Rein in Executive Pay
Shortly before the summer recess, members of Congress introduced three bills to crack down on excessive compensation.
Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism
CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies, stand to lose $1.9 billion in financing.