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Category: Banks

Student loans for pre-school?

August 15, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Banks, Children, Consumer issues, Education, Good government, Poverty, Youth issues Leave a comment

As if the student-loan crisis wasn’t bad enough, now there’s a proposal to create a market for loans for pre-school. The idea comes from

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Jimmy Carter: “America no longer has a functioning democracy”

July 24, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Civil liberties, Corporations, FBI/NSA/CIA, Privacy/surveillance Leave a comment

On Tuesday, July 16, at an event in Atlanta, ex-president Jimmy Carter made his blockbuster statement referring to, among other issues, the mass surveillance

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Obama to pick Bush Deputy Attorney General James Comey to head FBI

June 13, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, FBI/NSA/CIA, Obama, Privacy/surveillance Leave a comment

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) felt compelled to comment on Obama’s May 30 announcement of his choice of James Comey to head the

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Senator Sanders holds town halls on the Danish “solidarity” system

May 30, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Ethics, Financial reform, Government, Labor and unions, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

“I won’t dispute for one second the problems of a system that demands immense amount of fund-raisers by its legislators,” Jim Himes—a Democrat from

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Larry Lessig: A handful of people own our country

May 22, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. —Henry David Thoreau Activist and academic

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Frank Rich and Joe Stiglitz on income inequality

May 9, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Democrats, Economy, Financial reform, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

On a recent segment of the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel interviewed two guests at one time, something she rarely does. The guests, Frank Rich

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Jeffrey Sachs: “We have a corrupt politics to the core”

April 26, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Congress, Democrats, Economy, Financial reform, Republicans 2 comments

In a recent talk at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve at a conference titled “Fixing the Banking system for Good,” Jeffrey Sachs, economist, Columbia University

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Municipal stadium rip-offs: A new direction for the Occupy movement?

April 9, 2013 Arthur Lieber Banks, Business, Cities, Corporations, Financial reform, Poverty, Privatization Leave a comment

I always thought that it was a problem for the Occupy Movement to begin in late summer (2011) and then basically close up shop

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“State-wrecked: the corruption of capitalism in America”

April 4, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Economy, Government, Politics One comment

That’s the title of David A. Stockman’s March 31 opinion piece in the New York Times. Stockman is a Republican and former budget director

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Big banks still receiving trillions in taxpayer subsidies

March 27, 2013 Madonna Gauding Banks, Corporations, Economy, Social Sec/Medicare 5 comments

But hey, Democrats and Republicans are working tirelessly to cut Social Security and Medicare to “strengthen it for the future.” (I’m sure Orwell is

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