Interview | Economy & Labor In “Wet Kiss” for Wall Street, Congress Overturns Rules Allowing People to Sue Banks for Misconduct Senate Republicans overturned a rule that helps Americans to sue banks and credit card companies. By Nermeen Shaikh & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! October 26, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Welfare for Wall Street: Fees on Retirement Accounts How would you feel about being taxed $1,000 a year to provide six-figure salaries to people in the financial sector? By Dean Baker , Truthout September 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Economy & Labor Loan Sharks Were Meant to Be Eradicated — Now They’re Back This predatory practice has returned. By Chuck Collins , Inequality.org August 25, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections After Eight Months of Trump, What’s Next for the Resistance? From ballot initiatives to public disruptions, we have much to do. By Sarah Jaffe , Truthout August 10, 2017 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Fines for Big Financial Firms Have Plunged Under Trump The amount of penalties that federal regulators have collected from misbehaving financial firms has declined sharply in the first 200 days of Trump. By Sam Sacks , TheDistrictSentinel August 8, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Is Capitalism in Crisis? Latest Trends of a System Run Amok Political polarization is to be expected after a long-lasting structural crisis of capitalism, says David Kotz. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout August 1, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor 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. By C.J. Polychroniou , Truthout July 23, 2017 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Tenants March to Stop Giveaways to Wall Street Landlords Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, while continuing to subsidize private equity housing profiteers. By Aditi Katti , Inequality.org July 16, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Trump Embraces GOP Tax-Cut Orthodoxy Not even five months into his presidency, Trump has retreated from key populist promises by moving to slash taxes on the rich and throw millions of Americans off health … By Jonathan Marshall , ConsortiumNews June 25, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor Community Banking Is Alive, Well: The Three Myths About Dodd-Frank and Community Banks It's difficult to buy the story that Dodd-Frank hurts community banks. By Kathryn Milani , RooseveltInstitute June 17, 2017 Truthout