Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending
This is enough to turn your stomach.
FIRE stands for the finance, insurance, and real estate sector, or in other words, Wall Street. The Sunlight Foundation study reveals that in the past two decades, the number of donors giving $10,000 or more from t...
Wall Street donors swamp all others in election spending
This is enough to turn your stomach.
FIRE stands for the finance, insurance, and real estate sector, or in other words, Wall Street. The Sunlight Foundation study reveals that in the past two decades, the number of donors giving $10,000 or more from t...
Wall Street posts huge numbers against Elizabeth Warren
(Elizabeth Warren/Facebook)
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has a huge, record-setting pile of cash to throw at Elizabeth Warren:
Senator Scott Brown raised $3.2 million in the last three months of the year, boosting his campaign war chest to $12.8 mi...
Too difficult to prosecute Wall Street crime? Don’t!
JP Morgan Chase Board of Directors enjoy a corporate retreat. (Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons)
If there's one thing we've learned about Wall Street crimes, it's that they're difficult to nail down with certainty and get co...
Wall Street lobbyists go into overdrive to defeat Elizabeth Warren
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Panicked by the prospect of Elizabeth Warren becoming a United States senator, Wall Street lobbyists are pouring money into Scott Brown's campaign:
Financial service lobbyists and other K Street advocates have for weeks been ...
Borrowing a page from the anti-Apartheid fight
Lenny Flank comments in my last post, regarding pressuring cities to divest their assets from the too-big-to-fail banks:
reminiscient of the ole "divest from South Africa"
movement. For those of us who might be too young to remember that, the "d...
Big Banks have abandoned small businesses
Bank of America and company ... funding "small businesses" that make $20 million per year.
The numbers are just staggering.
Bank of America and Citibank, who collectively control about 20% of all deposits in the country, only made .6% of all SBA 7A l...
Rep. Joe Walsh has meltdown during meeting with constituents
I hope Illinois is suitably ashamed for ever electing this joker in the first place. Here's Congessman (sigh) Joe Walsh (R-IL), getting so pissed off that someone would question our Galtian overlords that he has a full-blown public meltdown. Partial t...
Transaction tax would raise $350 billion over next decade
Ryan Grim:
A minuscule tax on financial transactions proposed by congressional Democrats would raise more than $350 billion over the next nine years, according to an analysis by the Joint Tax Committee, a nonpartisan congressional scorekeeping panel.
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